Welcome to the Space To Learn page
An investigation into outdoor learning
Where there is breathing space
An interactive project where teachers, researchers and technologists work together to create an outdoor educational space reachable from anywhere.
Sited in the Mourne Mountains, on the coast, set within ancient woodland
Linked to the educational community of Swindon, Wilts.
Primary and Secondary pupils learn from real-world applications of physical technology.
Neurodivergent children experience live video feeds to calming woodland, whilst engaging with live online links to STEM based experiments
Visits to the site incorporate Micro:Bit and Raspberry Pi based coding missions in which the natural environment is analysed through multiple novel inputs
Project based learning in action
Live data feeds directly into classrooms to provide STEM subjects with concrete examples of how technology can make a meaningful difference in an environmentally sensitive setting.
Live video feeds from deep within the ancient woodland of Mourne Park, NI.
Pupils given agency in the ongoing montoring station: collaborative design teams in Swindon and South West schools
Teachers invited to develop resources or deploy on-site experients for inclusion.
There is a corner of an ancient woodland in Northern Ireland in which:
Technologies such as remote sensing, remote immersion and remote STEM experientation are being tested and explored
Teachers and children are learning
History is being shared
Disadvantage is being overcome
The Schoolhouse, Mourne Park
The new project to put the wellbeing and mental health of young people first.
Building on the Space To Learn infrastructure, with a plan to inspire the creation of many more remote sensing woods nationwide
Therapeutic opportunities for young people from Northern Ireland and from England
Connectivity outdoors: subterranean cat 5, Draytek access points -> feeding fibre (FTTP)
Automatic electric gate access
Outdoor path lighting, power points (20A), security
Transmission Zone: the area in which STEM experiments can be live monitored
Camera feeds: remotely monitored / some offline habitat specific / night view
– examples: ( nesting areas in trees, red squirrel dray, badger route) www.flickernet.net/cameras
Temperature
Light (Lux)
Humidity (outdoor as %)
Pressure (hPa)
Particles (link): pm1, pm25, pm10, nh3, oxid
Archive conditions (interior humidity and shelving temperature)
All Raspberry Pi powered:
Moisture (soil), pH
Gas (LPG / Propane / Hydrogen link) CO2
Starfield (shooting star detection)
Wind: turbine
Radio frequency analysis (link)
River and stream current: water turbines (link)
Acoustic monitoring, eg (link1) (link2)
Plus:
Micro:Bit field trials in September 2024 / Spring 2025 for biodiversity detection and animal habitat monitoring
To see the current particulate readings click here: Live Data Feed Page
Outdoor Educational Technology
Buried deep
If you would like to explore ways in which you could become involved please click the join button below, or email your suggestions to:
