Agriculture Kit Sensor Assembly & Programming Course

• Institutions: Annual institutional fee providing access for two classes, two teachers, and up to 50 students per institution.
• Individual Learners: A tailored pricing option for independent learners seeking a personalized experience. Select this choice if you are purchasing the course for personal use.

Course Objective, Content/Relevance, Benefits

Designed for real world deployments in school gardens (indoors or outdoors), and for smallholder farms, this course will guide learners in building and testing a set of weather sensors, next a soil moisture probe, rain gauge, and light sensor.

When complete and inserted in the garden plots this initial weather station, the soil moisture sensor probe, rain, and light sensors will deliver important and timely information for more productive gardens/farms and healthier plants. This data will include weather conditions affecting your crops, the water content of soils to plant root levels, rainfall rates for your season and region (of course for outdoor garden sites/farms), and average ambient light levels for your garden or farm location.

Teachers can give real world context to these sensors students develop by also adding our Regenerative Agriculture.

Project-Based Learning Science Course (see Subject Area Courses Aligned With OPEN’s WisBlock Development Courses section below).

If you choose to network your students’ sensors into our Global Sensor Data Network (GSDN) your students will be contributing to a worldwide citizen science project that OPEN is conducting with scientists, other schools and universities, policy-makers, and OPEN partners such as IBM Weather and Climate modeling division (EIS).

Prices $350.00 USD (for an individual learner) and $7,500.00 USD (for institutions – up to 50 students)