The closing event for the Citizen Science project “Sleep” was held at Carmel Zvulun School on Monday, June 17th, from 9:00 to 11:00 AM.
The project was conducted on a large scale this year, in collaboration with the school’s principal, Mrs. Dorit Talmor-Sarig, the teacher, Mrs. Noy Abutbul, the project scientists, Prof. Tamar Shochat and Prof. Eran Tauber, the project leader, Mrs. Noam Malkinson, the research team led by Prof. Dina Tsybulsky from the Technion, and the links team led by Prof. Dani Ben-Zvi from the University of Haifa.
The collaboration aimed to:
- Study the phenomenon of sleep among teenagers using Citizen Science.
- Examine and characterize the interactions between scientific thinking, statistical thinking, and thinking about the nature of science within various types of data sets, including big data.
The students involved in the project visited the project scientists’ laboratories at the University of Haifa and the Future Learning Space Lab. They learned about the phenomenon of sleep, collected data using sleep diaries, and investigated the sleep patterns of teenagers using Excel and TinkerPlots, an interactive data exploration software. They practiced various data science methods, including data exploration, cleaning, preparation of data files, including big data, and modeling relationships using training, evaluation, and testing of different potential models.
During this process, the students discovered a surprising phenomenon regarding teenagers’ sleep habits, contributing valuable insights to scientific research in this area.
At the closing event, the students presented follow-up research they conducted independently on the sleep patterns of teenagers. These projects were based on the complete data set of the Sleep Project, collected over the years as part of the TCSS Center at the school.
The students’ presentations at the event were outstanding! The event itself was emotional and significant. Thanks to all the staff and students!
