Monitoring water quality through citizen science while teaching STEM undergraduate courses during a global pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many universities struggle to engage students while implementing a distance-based teaching/learning approach and to provide hands-on activities to students enrolled in STEM classes. Implementing service-focused activities that can be conducted by the students remotely can overcome these struggles. The goals of this study were to 1) implement citizen science activities focused on water quality using three commercially available low-cost test strips (2:1, 5:1, and 16:1) while teaching four undergraduate engineering courses at the University of Mississippi (UM) during a pandemic event, and 2) evaluate the acceptability and validate the results obtained. Eighty-five undergraduate students (citizen scientists) and five research scientists (control group) collected

SUBMITTER: D'Alessio M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612102 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature