Comparison of soil and air temperatures with CobraSMARTsense

Principle

How does the temperature of the air affect the temperature of the soil during the course of a day?

Benefits

• experiment is part of a complete solution with numerous experiments in the field of ecology
• Measurements possible indoors and outdoors, for mobile use
• Especially understandable and didactically prepared description of the experiment (relevance to everyday life, etc.) including protocol questions.
• Future-oriented teaching: Integration into digital science lessons with tablets or smartphones.
• Increased motivation of students by using the intuitive measureAPP.
• Increased media competence.

Tasks

1. measurement of air temperature and soil temperature at different soil depths over a period of 24 hours
2. creation of a measurement curve of all temperature measurements and comparison of the temperature curves

Learning Objectives

• Soil temperature profile
• heat transfer
• Soil water content
• Soil aggregate condition