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Learning Resources

HICS's learning resources are freely available — for teachers, students, and anyone who wants to understand the science behind the instruments and data. Download them, use them, adapt them.

Curriculum modules

These modules run on every IESH station's offline learning portal — the full material is mirrored here in the open. Source: hics-iesh (v0.1.0).

🌤 6 activities

Climate & Atmosphere

Reading the air above us — temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude

🌱 5 activities

Soil & Agriculture

Understanding what lies beneath — soil temperature, moisture and the land that feeds Nepal

💨 5 activities

Air Quality & Health

What we breathe — carbon monoxide, air quality and the health of Nepal's atmosphere

📊 5 activities

Data & Technology

Numbers, patterns and systems — data literacy for the 21st century

🌏 6 activities

Environment & Society

Nepal's three worlds, one climate story — from the terai to the Himalaya

Instrument build guides

Moderate · ~NPR 15,000 in parts

IESH v0 Station

The first-generation station: Raspberry Pi 3B, DHT22, BMP280, MQ-135. Offline-first logging and a local dashboard. The build is documented in the lab notes; designs and firmware are open-source.

→ Build guide & source

Scientific computing

Python tutorials using real HICS data, as downloadable Jupyter notebooks.

Notebooks are in preparation — built on real HICS data. They will appear here when they exist, not before.

These five modules ship on every IESH station and run with no internet — the station broadcasts its own WiFi and serves the activities itself, with visualisations driven by its live sensors. Many activities need no equipment at all; some use everyday materials; the richest ones use the station. Downloadable PDF versions are being prepared from the same source. Everything here is open — use it, adapt it, translate it.