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About SENSE IT: Project Overview

The Student Enabled Network of Sensors for the Environment using Innovative Technology (SENSE IT) project will integrate science, technology, pre-engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills into a robust interdisciplinary curricula and teacher development effort by teaching high school students to design, build, test, deploy and interpret their own environmental sensors. SENSE IT spans three distinct residential regions in New York’s Hudson and St. Lawrence River valleys (Potsdam, Troy and Beacon), as well as a diverse socioeconomic and racial spectrum. SENSE IT is providing 120 hours of professional development, in-class support and necessary equipment to participating teachers in the region, while directly increasing awareness of STEM career opportunities for students and teachers.

Modules

SENSE IT will provide four project-based educational modules:


1) Sensor development
2) Sensor deployment and data gathering
3) Water quality investigation
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 curricula (mathematics, chemistry, general science, physics, environmental science and computer science), while meeting state and national education standards.

Objectives

The objectives of the SENSE IT project are to:

 


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