At the American International School Lusaka (Zambia), across the whole
high school, one hour a week is dedicated to global issues
discussion. This can take the form of articles reading / round
tables, guest-speakers, develop new CAS/C&S projects, etc. This
year a group of very talented students have started to approach this
session under a maths/sciences lens.
The idea is to mathematically model an issue related to
biodiversity. At the moment, we are looking at two issues. How to
model an ecosystem that could prevent the spread of invasive plants in
rivers? Several rivers and wetlands of Zambia have been invaded by
such plants. This bring various environmental issues as well as severe
electricity cut as the plants interfere with nearby electrical dams.
The other project is to model the ecosystem of a fishpond in rural area
in order to meet the nutritious needs of the people.
If any school have already undertake such projects and would like
to share their expertise, it would be greatly appreciated. Or if you
would like to joint us in the search/modeling of data, that could be
great as well!
Feel Free to contact us to know more about the projects.
Francois de Ryckel
