How can we engage children in the climate crisis and the role played by carbon dioxide in a way that makes it personal and real? One option is to use the energy (and thus carbon) data of the school itself to provide insight and learning.
This was the intention of international education specialists Metanoia whose client, a school in mainland China, wanted to help children, teachers and staff engage with the ‘carbon story’ of their own school.
We were fortunate that the school asked their architect to develop a 3D model of its campus. This meant more of our budget could be spent on the animation itself. The animation first shows the ‘footprint’ of the school in real-time as one gram ‘bubbles’ emerging from the ground, then switches to one kilogram (one metre diameter) spheres in the school playing fields representing one day’s emissions. Finally the annual carbon emissions are shown dwarfing the school campus.
If your school, college or university would like to engage staff and students in their ‘carbon story’ the please get in touch. If budget is tight we can create simple images or short animations for social media. A larger budget enables more complex animations that show carbon footprint, savings and targets.