How to deliver your work? 

Personally or by letter to the Office of the Science Popularisation Centre of the Silesian University of Technology, ul. Konarskiego 22B, 44-100 Gliwice. 

Remember that the works should be delivered in the form of a A3 format poster, landscape orientation. 

Competition task: 

Have you noticed more frequent downpours, storms, droughts and hurricanes in recent years? Or have you heard about the melting of glaciers and the average temperature rising in the world? These are the effects of climate change that we can all observe. And you can take a closer look at them and build your own meteorological station, examining the temperature, pressure, humidity, and even the amount of precipitation, wind direction and speed, as well as sunshine and cloud cover. 

Prepare the results of the work of the weather station designed by you in the form of a poster that we will evaluate. 

Introductory materials to the topic can be found below: 

https://imgw.pl/sites/default/files/2020-09/imgw_edu_cisnienie-temperatura-wiatr.pdf 

https://www.imgw.pl/wydarzenia/klimat-woda-i-pogoda-najnowszy-film-imgw-pib-ktory-kazdy-z-nas-musi-zobaczyc 

https://www.imgw.pl/instytut/edukacja 

Information for the teacher: 

The aim of the competition task is to design and build a device enabling the observation and analysis of weather changes. The result of the task is to draw the participants’ attention to the phenomena occurring in nature in the context of climate change, as well as to prevent the change as one of the main challenges facing humanity today. 

The task is to develop and design and build a meteorological station, and then to analyse and interpret the collected data. The station should enable the measurement of such quantities as: temperature, pressure, humidity, amount of precipitation, wind direction and speed, as well as sunshine or cloudiness. From the above set, you can select only a part of the quantities for which the measurements will be carried out. The remaining quantities may be subject to systematic observation. 

Data should be collected for 30 consecutive days (morning, noon and evening). The collected results should be analysed, presented graphically in the form of a poster (any format and technique, landscape orientation) and compared with the weather information (available e.g. on the Internet) for the place of observation. The poster will be assessed and then it will be presented during the poster exhibition at the final gala of the EcoCity competition. 

The assessment will include: 

Description of the causes and purposes of weather observation. 

Design and description of the station. 

Building the station. 

Collecting data (measurement or observation). 

Compare own results with meteorological data. 

Analysis and interpretation of results, conclusions. 

Additional measurements, complexity, durability of devices, time consumption, aesthetics. 

The task can be carried out as part of the core curriculum in the following subjects: 

geography, physics.