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

学生支持的使用创新技术的环境传感器网络(Sense IT)项目将通过教3,000名高中生设计、制造、测试、部署和解释他们自己的环境传感器，将STEM技能整合到强大的跨学科课程和教师发展努力中。Sense IT将跨越纽约哈德逊河谷和圣劳伦斯河谷的三个不同的住宅区，以及不同的社会经济和种族光谱。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将产生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)水质调查和4)在天文台之间共享数据。每个模块将需要三到五节典型的45分钟课程，并包括全面的教案，以适应插入任何标准的高中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教学环境，教授技术、工程、数学、科学和关键劳动力技能；3)鼓励学习者从全球的角度看待本地问题和数据；4)在高中教师、学生、家长和辅导顾问中促进对传感器网络相关职业和机会的认识；以及5)强调数学对所有STEM学科和职业至关重要。

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.