ARBRe (0): Augmented Reality Bolstered Reforestation summary

Students reforest a degraded area of Elche, South-East Spain, a very dry and arid region with less than 250 mm of rain yearly. To help create engagement students take geolocated data, photos and other relevant information and pin it to web maps, allowing anyone to follow the evolution of these particular plants. They also link these pictures to their own, updating the images every year, and publish them in a website (and eventually any map or AR app that accepts them) for anyone to see how kids and plants grow together.

The main target of the activity is to raise awareness about climate change, environmental problems and desertification, a serious and immediate challenge in our region. It also creates a bond between the students and "their" plants, contributing to a higher commitment to nature conservation and a better understanding of the difficulties they may be facing in their adult lives, living in a desert-like area.