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back They will design and deliver lessons to engage students in environmental science using probes that can sense everything from temperature, to pH, to oxygen levels, etc and download the data directly into computers for display as graphs for analysis. After a weeklong workshop, they will teach at the UCSD TechTrek for high school students this summer. Our own students will benefit from the planned lessons and others from the workshop throughout this next year. TIES students (Teams in Engineering Service from UCSD) will be in our classroom as support, mentors and role models. The school will receive a set of probes for use and others will be on loan. In addition, we will participate in a county-wide collection of environmental data. This is an exciting opportunity for our students thanks to Mrs. Paluso’s initiative. The UCSD Information Technology – Engineering and Environmental Education Tools project, dubbed IT-E3 Tools, is funded through a new three-year, $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant as part of the Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) award program. ITEST was created in response to the shortage of information technology workers in the U.S. ITEST projects use hands-on activities with educators and youth to promote scientific inquiry. The first component of the new program brings science to life by giving students the tools to measure air quality and other environmental indicators around their own schools. UCSD undergraduates will design low-cost environmental sensors, which teachers and their classes can build and deploy at their school sites. Students will be able to visualize and share data they collect with other students and discover the value of data in understanding environmental issues. Airborne particulate concentration and wind speed information, for example, can help students understand their school’s health risks during fire season. Our Chabad students remember the catastrophic fires of 2003 and we hope that the measurements that we make will be useful and capture the students’ interests. The San Diego Supercomputer Center will host a website where data can be collected from classes across the county. Web-based user interfaces will allow our students to interact with and analyze the scientific data. In addition to airborne particulates, sensors will measure local solar radiation, which will help students understand why they need to be careful about sun exposure while at the same time analyze the potential benefit of solar power for our school site. Read more http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/tiesgrant07.asp |
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