Education/EdTech-lending-library
Project to develop a permanent loan and a lending library of instruments which includes the low-cost, high-quality, hand-held, durable, Blue-tooth enabled, and programmable multi-sensor instruments.
Project’s Goals :
- To inspire students to be involved in science,
- To supply students and teachers with inexpensive, high-quality scientific instruments to productively collect data in their classrooms
- To make data relevant to students which hopefully will lead to an increased interest in the sciences.
Work Plan:
There are planned to be two sets of teachers using the instruments (PocketLab). Multi-year permanent loan: One classroom (students working in teams) set of instruments for an ESIP-associated teacher can develop, test, revise, and extend classroom curriculum for multiple years. Lending Library: of a classroom (team) set to an ESIP-associated educator on an annual basis for the entire school year. With the ESIP funding, we ease the issue of cost while the simplicity of application creates a variety of opportunities across a broader set of grades. By focusing on a single instrument, we can ease into the implementation of a lending-library and build environmental-focused lesson plans.
Teachers will provide an outline on how the instruments will be used in their classes. (number of classes, class names, approx number of students, age range, project topic(s)). They will also be encouraged to integrate /compare to Earth science data collected through ESIP-communities for at least one lesson.
ESIP will purchase and distribute the PocketLab instruments and ship to the teachers.
Teachers will provide a monthly update of progress
At the end of the school year, teachers will provide a short report with description of best project with data results as an example for others, and 2-3 classroom lessons shared to ESIP and (ideally) with the PocketLab website.
Communicating project results and project closure:
- Poster about progress of data collection, instrument use, lessons learned in the classroom
- Uploading of lessons to the ESIP Ed wiki, special project area and to (Ideally)PocketLab website
Timeline:
Multi-year/ permanent loan
Nov – Dec 2018: • Purchase the Pocketlabs • Teacher provides an outline on how the instruments will be used in their Spring 2019 classes. (number of classes, class names, approx number of students, age range, project topic(s)). • Teachers will be encouraged to integrate /compare to Earth science data collected through ESIP-communities for at least one lesson. • Jan – April 2019 • Monthly update of progress
May – Jun 2019 • Short report from teacher with description of best project with data results as an example for others, and 2-3 classroom lessons shared to ESIP and with the PocketLab website.
Lending Library
Nov 2018 – Jan 2019: • Purchase the Pocketlabs • Recruit teacher for lending library instruments • Teacher provides an outline on how the instruments will be used in their Spring 2019 classes. (number of classes, class names, approx number of students, age range, project topic(s)) • Teachers will be encouraged to integrate /compare to Earth science data collected through ESIP-communities for at least one lesson. Jan – April 2019 • Monthly update of progress • Look into the use of GLOBE protocols for lessons (this could lead to PocketLab to be an authorized instrument for GLOBE data collection – thus further extend the data sharing)
May – Jun 2019 • Short report from teacher with description of best project with data results as an example for others, and 2-3 classroom lessons shared to ESIP and with the PocketLab website. At least 1-page summary detailing a successful project undertaken during the school year and the resulting lesson plans that we would collect and post as examples for other teachers, with acknowledgement to the author(s).
Both projects
July –August 2019 • Uploading of lessons to the ESIP Ed wiki, special project area and to PocketLab website • Poster about progress of project and outputs from teachers about of data collection, instrument use, lessons learned in the classroom
September 2019 • Special project concluded. Based on initial phase of the project, another round (which basically involves shipping) will be conducted FY 19- 20. The loan to teacher is expected to continue another year so that he can revise and expand his lesson plans • During or at the conclusion of your project, post any resultant artifacts code and/or a snapshot of the Amazon instance to the ESIP GitHub organization repository, and place the repository link on your project Wiki page. • Present your project final project status, at its completion to the ESIP Education Committee. • Submit a brief financial report, at the conclusion of the project, on how the project funds were spent to accomplish the project goals.
Anticipated outcomes of the project:
• Short report from teacher with description of best project with data results as an example for others, and 2-3 classroom lessons shared to ESIP and with the PocketLab website. At least 1-page summary detailing a successful project undertaken during the school year and the resulting lesson plans that we would collect and post as examples for other teachers, with acknolwedgement to the author(s).
Impact of project on the ESIP and/or external communities:
This project • Builds on the UW experience of lending iPads • Allows for long-term development, revision, and sharing of lesson plans that are data and instrument based. • Provides teachers examples of how to use instruments and data in the classrooms environment • Disseminates lessons to broader teacher community • Prvides demonstration of science best practice for learners to compare data they collected themselves with data from other sources.
