CENSNet: An Architecture for Authentic Web-based Science Inquiry in Middle and High School

这个为期48个月的项目将为初中和高中学生和教师提供来自嵌入式网络传感中心（CENS）的实时科学数据。 它将产生围绕传感器网络构建的课程模块，并针对核心生命科学内容和调查标准。 目前的科学研究资金提供了一个生态系统监测网络，支持对加州的詹姆斯保护区进行广泛的远程调查。 该项目增加了教育界面和辅助材料，以支持学校的真实调查。 它允许学校以与科学家相同的方式和在相同的环境中进行调查和探究。该项目建立在2000万美元STC项目的基础上，旨在创建一个用于科学用途的传感器网络。 拟议的项目旨在创建CENS传感器网络的学生友好的视图，在广泛的科学课堂使用的环绕式教学活动。 这些活动的宣传将与CENSnet项目一起进行。 一个研究部分包括研究用于探究和衡量学生收益的技术和教学支架的褪色。

This forty-eight month project will provide middle and high school students and teachers with access to live scientific data from the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). It will result in curricular modules that are built around sensor networks and that target core life science content and inquiry standards. Current funding for scientific research has provided an ecosystem monitoring network that supports extensive remote investigations of the James Reserve in California. This project adds the educational interface and supporting materials to support authentic investigations by schools. It allows schools to do investigations and inquiry in the same way and in the same environment as scientists. The project builds on the $20 Million STC project to create a network of sensors for scientific use. The proposed project aims to create a student-friendly view of the CENS sensor network, with wrap-around instructional activities for classroom use in a broad range of the sciences. Dissemination of these activities will be in conjunction with the CENSnet project. A research component includes the study of fading technological and pedagogical scaffold for inquiry and measuring student gains.