Children using sound sensors to improve school environmental health

The teaching and learning experience, reported in this paper, aims at empowering schoolchildren in the promotion of environmental health in schools, emphasizing the role of Information and Communication Technologies in such promotion. Sound sensors (integrated in tablets) together with a free app were used by children to improve their awareness in what concerns noise, and its consequences. A set of strategies were designed and implemented to support children in making sense of the use of sound sensors in the specific context of a science museum school, with their own teachers, and where each class stays only for a week. Children's registers and answers to a satisfaction questionnaire contributed to validate the developed strategy. Primary school teachers' feedback made it possible to follow-up the experience. The dissemination of the experience to other primary schools is being planned in the context of a research project on Environmental Health (Eco-sensors4Health).