Visualizing the interaction between human activities on soil and its connection to climate change
Yucan Lu
Climate change is impacting most life on earth. To understand how humans and other life forms on earth can withstand anthropogenic climate change, it is vital to incorporate knowledge of the microbial “unseen majority”. The thin skin of the earth dive below to take closer look that how microorganism will be affected by climate change and other human activities.
By the year 2050 about two billion more people may live on earth, all of these people will need to eat through overexploitation of cultivated land. Human activities and their effects on the climate and environment cause unprecedented animal and plant extinctions, loss in biodiversity and endanger animal and plant life on earth. Research on learning behavior has demonstrated that visualizing such processes in three dimensions aids understanding. Animations are also effective visualization tools for novice learners and aid with long-term retention of the subject. In this project, I want to develop a high-quality animation that visualize the impact of human activities on soil and its connection to climate change. interaction between soil and climate change under human activities, such as soil compaction, soil tillage, for first year biology students. Currently, this animation represents the soil composition, decomposition of organic material processes. It is integrated with an educational model and representing the key steps in the processes.
Aim
With this project, I hope to have an important impact on knowledge communication and stimulate students‘ learning. It is also puts people to raise awareness of notice, which are essential for achieving an environmentally sustainable future.
Methods
Storyboard as my method that is a crucial step of preparing an animation / video production, I try to use workshop and interview as my evaluation method to visualizing outline in the form of illustration, photos in a linear sequence for the purpose of designing an animation.
Results
The final artifact should show that students learn more from animations than from static images. Learning is best achieved when an animation is coupled with a lecture, because this combination provides a reference from which students can appreciate the knowledge presented in the animation. The lecture cues students while they are studying the animation.
Master project 2019–2020 (ongoing)
Mentoring
Alessandro Holler
Cooperation partner
Anett Hoffmann, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, ETH Zürich
