Strategies: The Student Enabled Network of Sensors for the Environment using Innovative Technology (SENSE IT)

使用创新技术的学生环境传感器网络 (SENSE IT) 项目将通过教 3,000 名高中生设计、构建、测试、部署和解释自己的环境传感器，将 STEM 技能整合到强大的跨学科课程和教师发展工作中。 SENSE IT 将跨越纽约哈德逊河和圣劳伦斯河谷的三个不同的住宅区，以及多样化的社会经济和种族范围。 SENSE IT 将覆盖该地区至少 60 名教师，提供 120 小时的专业发展、课堂支持和必要的设备，同时直接提高学生和教师对 STEM 职业机会的认识。 SENSE IT 将生成四个基于项目的教育模块：1) 传感器开发，2) 传感器部署和数据收集，3) 水质调查，4) 跨观测站共享数据。每个模块需要三到五个典型的 45 分钟课程，并包括全面的课程计划，以适应任何标准高中 STEM 课程（数学、化学、普通科学、物理、环境科学和计算机科学），同时满足州和国家教育标准。 SENSE IT 项目的目标是 1) 为高中课堂开发传感器技术课程； 2) 使用环境传感器作为一个引人入胜的环境来教授技术、工程、数学、科学和关键的劳动力技能； 3）鼓励学习者以全球视角看待本地问题和数据； 4) 提高高中教师、学生、家长和辅导员对传感器网络相关职业和机会的认识； 5) 强调数学是所有 STEM 学科和职业的关键。

The Student Enabled Network of Sensors for the Environment using Innovative Technology (SENSE IT) project will integrate STEM skills into a robust interdisciplinary curriculum and teacher development effort by teaching 3,000 high school students to design, build, test, deploy and interpret their own environmental sensors. SENSE IT will span three distinct residential regions in New York's Hudson and St. Lawrence River valleys, as well as a diverse socioeconomic and racial spectrum. SENSE IT will reach at least 60 teachers in the region, providing 120 hours of professional development, in-class support and necessary equipment, while directly increasing awareness of STEM career opportunities for students and teachers. SENSE IT will generate four project-based educational modules: 1) Sensor development, 2) Sensor deployment and data gathering, 3) Water quality investigation and 4) Sharing data across observatories. Each module will require three to five typical 45-minute class periods and include comprehensive lesson plans to accommodate insertion into any standard high school STEM curriculum (mathematics, chemistry, general science, physics, environmental science and computer science), while meeting state and national education standards. The objectives of the SENSE IT project are to 1) develop a sensor technologies curriculum for the high school classroom; 2) use environmental sensors as an engaging context to teach technology, engineering, mathematics, science, and critical workforce skills; 3) encourage learners to look at a local problem and data within a global perspective; 4) promote awareness of sensor network related careers and opportunities among high school teachers, students, parents and guidance counselors; and 5) emphasize that mathematics is key to all STEM disciplines and careers.