分水岭创新实验室
我们的使命是让切斯特河成为世界上最广为人知的河流 to use this data in schools to teach students about the environment.
分水岭创新实验室(WIL)创造了独特的设备来帮助理解、观察、 teach and involve our students in research that shows us how watersheds work.
从建造水质监测浮标到制造遥控船，再到 地图水质数据，分水岭创新实验室是一个探索的空间 depths through creative technologies.
分水岭创新实验室也招募学生来帮助我们提供STEM项目 到K-12班. These programs include anything from aerial imaging with kites to tagging trees for observation to building underwater robots.
Dr. 道格·莱文他是WIL的负责人，得到了马里兰州创新基金的支持 商务部(Department of Commerce)在马里兰州创建了一家专注于浮标的企业(Basic) Observation Buoys(BOBs)) that collect water quality data. 水质系统 provided through a partnership with In-Situ Inc (Fort Collins, Colorado).
我们做什么
水质监测
在流域创新实验室，我们的工作重点是监测水质 在切斯特河. 我们的 goal is to establish a correlation with water quality along 整个切斯特河与农业实践和降雨的发生有关.
- 水质监测浮标我们建造浮标来收集和传输水质数据，以及有关的数据
水产养殖与工程. These buoys are launched throughout the Chester River
让我们来监测，以及其他由其他组织监测的水体.
- Remote Control Boats (ROVERS)在与美国国家航空航天局合作的一个项目中，我们还建造了遥控船(ROVERS)来收集数据
water quality data that can be mapped. WAC的学生 helping with the design of
这些船，创造操作它们的方法，并学习最翔实的
ways to present the data gathered from them.
Sailbotz我们还在建造用于收集和传输数据的无人驾驶帆船 GPS和水质数据.
这些卫星是在全球洋流中发射的，用来绘制水温，叶绿素 a, and other parameters to match with NASA satellite measurements. WAC的学生 帮助设计这些船并使用从船上收集的数据.
遥感
27英尺的科考船 月鲹 is used with different remote sensing devices to make high resolution. 我们使用side 扫描声纳绘制水下栖息地，多波束绘制海底深度， 海底剖面仪用来观察河底下的地质情况，还有磁力计 to find evidence of 海难s or other, iron laden, man-made objects. 学生们 展示了如何使用不同的系统，可用于独立研究 以及高级论文.
研究舰队
干教育
We create programs for STEM education. These programs range from creation of an underwater robot, to building your own buoy, to aerial imaging with kites. 请参阅下文 descriptions of our STEM programs.
STEM教育项目
在一个多小时内设计、建造并操作一个工作的水下机器人. 这个程序已经被使用到三年级，并通过专业使用 development for educators and more. Using PVS parts, pool noodles, and a controler 与舱底泵马达连接，一个水下机器人框架被建造并连接起来 一个30英尺(10米)长的绳索. Powered by a 12v battery held in a backpack, the Aquabotz can 带着相机在游泳池里“游泳”，或者用来拉一个自制的(学生建造的)鱼缸。 浮游生物拖，相机用于观察和浮游生物拖后检查 the deployment to see what is lurking in the water column.
Aquabotz可以作为“随时可用”的套件购买，也可以不带水下相机. There are enough pieces to allow multiple frame designs. The controller is guarunteed 一年. Aquabotz with prebuilt controller, fram pieces and waterproof camera - $400 (battery not included), plus shipping. Get in touch for more details and to 讨论项目需求. NGSS lesson plans are included.
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| 这 is a 样本Aquabotz getting ready to be put in the water. | 操作员背着电池背包，在水中控制Aquabotz 在她面前. | 这 Aquabotz is sporting a nylon plankton tow being pulled behind it. 经过几 几分钟后，机器人被回收，被困的东西被冲洗到一个罐子里 显微分析. The analysis includes plankton and plastic bits. |
我们向所有年龄组的人发起挑战，要求他们建造一个能打破“世界纪录”的浮标 它能容纳多少个高尔夫球，或者它能站多高而不翻倒. 我们的 students present this challenge to K-12 groups all over our 2 counties. 小浮标 是用聚氯乙烯片建造的，可以容纳50多个高尔夫球，还是没有聚氯乙烯片就能站在一米高的地方 摔倒. An indoor/outdoor thermometer is attached to create an observation buoy that measures water and air temperature. BABs program kits that service 30 students at a time will be available as a user resource. A website holds photos of records and prints certificates of achievement. Students leave knowing that buoys “mark underwater roads” and collect/transmit data.
在美国国家航空航天局(NASA)的一个合作项目中，人们在放飞风筝时，会携带一个拍摄照片的设备 the ground and senses the degree of moisture it contains. 学生们学习如何飞行 kites that complete a mission to map the ground being flown over.
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农业的 -探讨农业、农业和生态的概念，以支持可持续发展. Demonstration gardens are designed, installed and monitored on school grounds.
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鲍勃和弗洛斯 -使用水质监测系统测量和绘制真实数据 气象站. 可视化明确的数据变化(数据喷泉)全天监测并显示 on large monitors installed in common school areas. Causal relationships are visualized between water chemistry, weather, and land use.
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问题调查 -识别环境调查中普遍存在的社会问题的技能 and using real data to support different viewpoints will be demonstrated. 参与, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate – In our programs, a 6th “e”被添加为“授权”，它被定义为“行动项目”，其中内在的 worth adds intangible value to the lesson.
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它的电 -教育工作者使用太阳能电池板和微型涡轮机来转换太阳能和风 电. They also explore battery science with fruits and vegetables. 所有 that is learned will be transferrable to K-12 classrooms. 这包含了一个“绿色” 挑战”，学生们在竞争中努力减少学校的人均能源使用量 with others in their Schoolshed. (Add model railroading to explore circuitry & (运输)
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这是给鸟儿们的 – Educators are taught bird identification and basic avian science. 建立链接 to climate and weather, biology, geography (bird migrations), and pollination. 30 sets of binoculars and bird ID books are available for delivery to schools. 鸟屋, 蜂箱、蝙蝠屋、蝴蝶屋和花园被安装在学校的财产上.
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K-12课程整合 – 杰迈玛克拉克 与各县合作，使所有“一个流域”项目与联邦、州和地方政府保持一致 本地学习标准.
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Sailbotz -使用一个自由漂浮的、不锚定的“浮标”和一个帆，我们探索洋流 以及如何利用这一媒介将学生与陌生的外国文化联系起来 climates, and varying habitats.
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飞越领空 -教育工作者乘坐飞机，从空中看到他们的分水岭.
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感觉它 -电子元件和万用表向教育工作者展示如何构建传感器 使用电压来测量变化，并使用图形和数学将电压转换为物理 measurements – temperature, conductivity, and more. (adapted from Liesl Hotaling, 感觉它)
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地方感 -研究船、皮划艇、独木舟和徒步旅行被用来穿越水体 在公园范围内，采用观察和采样装置来表征不同的特征 habitats and bring “intimacy” between the park and its’ educators. 这个PDM可以扩展 超过两天.
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沉船 -在下列地区 水下文化 文物被识别，它们将被成像与海底测绘设备和 their history and provenance identified. 这 interdisciplinary opportunity touches governance, economics, industry, social history, ag-history, and technology. 水下 图像被绘制在30 ' x 25 '的广告牌上，学生们走在上面 像在水下一样解读.
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StoryMap -教育工作者学习如何使用手持GPS装置、计算机地图和在线工具 创建虚拟和真实的实地考察，结合学习目标和讲故事 与当地地标相连.
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TREEs (Tree Research for Environmental Education) – Trees in schoolyards are tagged with QR-codes. Each tag is linked to the mapped, GPS coordinates of the tree, its species, height, and girth (at 1m). 照片被存档 in the web-searchable data base each year. The trees are adopted/assigned to students and monitored throughout their academic career (12 yrs). 在未来，树木会 be DNA fingerprinted and that information archived in a searchable database. 这 program was developed to meet NGSS research needs of all ages.
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向上，向上，然后离开 飞行科学 -有系统地携带风筝、气球、纸飞机、无人驾驶飞机 进入K-12教室. Educators learn flight science and remote sensing and how to present it to their students at all ages. Select educators will qualify for their certificate to legally pilot Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).
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虚拟实地考察- X,Y,Z -使用遥控船只和卡车收集全球定位系统参考数据-光谱图像; 热测绘，测深. (规划)