SLW
Looking for living water
- Project start date:
- September 2025
- Project end date:
- March 2026
- Project Contacts:
- Eva Bombarová - info@slobodnaskola.sk
- Project cost:
- 2500
- Funding amount:
- 200
- Project URL:
- https://slobodnaskola.sk/projekty/problue/
- Impact Assesment progress:
- 98% complete
Project Description
Searching for Living Water" is a hands-on educational project that engages students in exploring local water sources for signs of living organisms and the presence of microplastics. The project encourages environmental awareness, scientific thinking, and responsible behavior toward nature conservation.
The first and key objective of the project was to improve pupils´ understanding of water pollutants by direct data sampling, detecting and sharing. The project involves students observing and monitoring the quality of local water sources. Children learn why water is important, how to protect it, and the impact of pollution, including microplastics. Activities take place during nature, science and mathematics lessons, where students explore rivers and collect simple data. Parents and homeschool students participate in outdoor activities, helping with observations and practical tasks. The project encourages responsible behavior toward nature, strengthens community engagement, and provides hands-on learning experiences with real-world environmental issues. During the student research project, we collected 21 water samples, which confirmed the following pupils hypotheses: Water near human settlements will be more polluted than water in the wild. Water taken from a river in a city contains more microplastics than water from the wild. Spring water will be the cleanest (lowest turbidity, low microorganism content). We examined a wide variety of water sources and found microplastics in nearly 50% of the samples.
Impact Assesment Tools
Current Project Impact
The following scores were calculated using a statistically-driven machine-learning approach, a type of AI that learns to perform a task by analysing patterns in data. This is an experimental approach to citizen-science impact assessment, and the exact reasoning behind the scores is not explainable. The scores represent a best guess of the impact the project is having in each domain. Scores are recalculated and updated when “View impact report” is clicked.
Domain Progress
Proportion of questions answered in each domain.
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