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January 5, 2010:

Monitoring the Albertine Rift in Africa

IAGT featured in Arc News
Arc News article describes IAGT's collaboration with the Woods Hole Research Center to create a web mapping application for helping monitor the Albertine Rift in Africa.
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WHRC Application ...

On-site Weather Station

GIT Resources - Lesson Plans

Various Lesson Plans

ArcLessons - ArcLessons is an ESRI developed site used as a resource to share LessonPacks for using GIS in the classroom. The LessonPacks on ArcLessons have been created by teachers for use in the classroom.

Digital Library for Earth System Education – contains links to other sites that provide GIS data and lesson plans
http://www.dlese.org/library/query.do?q=GIS%20lesson%20plans&s=0

Teaching with GIS in the Geosciences

James Madison University – STEM: National Center for Rural Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Education Outreach – Geospatial Technology
            Middle School lesson plans
            Rural middle schools
http://www.isat.jmu.edu/stem/curriculum.html

GIS Modules from Lane Community College, Eugene, OR, as part of their MAPS GIS project. A major component of the MAPS GIS project is the creation and dissemination of Internet based learning modules that use GIS to teach a variety of geospatial concepts across the curriculum.
http://gis.lanecc.edu/Plone/modules/

GIS Career Awareness Learning Modules from San Diego State University. These web-based GIS Learning Modules are designed for High School students, and certificates are available on completion of the modules.
http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/hightech/

GIS for History – lessons plans that use GIS. Do not have to have GIS software. The map is online that is used with layers that you can turn on and off. You just need a computer with internet access. Designed for high school and undergraduate American History classes but could be amended for younger students.
http://www.gisforhistory.org/

GIS Lessons on the Web – Web-based GIS lesson plans.  You do not need GIS software to use these lesson plans.
http://arcims.mathsciencecenter.info/protected/lessonplans.html

USGS lesson plans using GIS
http://education.usgs.gov/common/lessons/gis.html

Metropolitan East Coast Assessment Education Module – includes a link to the data needed for the two lessons provided – climate change mapping and thematic mapping using census data.
http://metroeast_climate.ciesin.columbia.edu/edumod.html

National Geospatial Technology Extension Network
Remote Sensing and GIS for Educators
http://geospatialextension.org/resources/data-sources/remote-sensing-and-gis-for-educators

National Geographic Xpeditions – Geography Standards in Your Classroom – site has index of lesson plans. Some of these lessons use the internet to demonstrate GIS and view satellite imagery. Some of the lesson names that do this are “GIS Helping to Save the African Wild” and “What can we learn from satellite images”
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/matrix.html

Learning with GPS – GPS lessons plus links to other online resources
http://sciencespot.net/Pages/classgpslsn.html

Virginia's CTE Resource Center – provides links to sites plus
http://www.cteresource.org/publications/featured/geospatial/

http://www.lane.k12.or.us/insttech/vtc/gps.html - maybe, look at in more depth

KanGIS – check out student data mapper. Also has national training calendar for educators.
http://kangis.org/

Lesson Plans For Google Earth

Google for Educators
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Google Earth Lessons
http://www.gelessons.com/

Explore Your Earth
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/exploreyourearth/ - also has a document that explains how the lessons meet National Standards

Google Earth Resources for Geography Teachers
http://www.geographypages.co.uk/googleearth.htm

Locations in Shakespeare’s Plays: Placemarks for Google Earth
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/155428/an/0/page/0

Variety of Google Earth Lessons
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/GeogP/gearthplan/

Lesson Plans for NASA WorldWind

Pennsylvania View – a member of a nationwide consortium for remote sensing education, research , and geospatial applications. Has data and lesson plan ideas.
http://www.paview.psu.edu/education/education.html

Other

My NASA Data – contains lesson plans and other resources about how to use NASA data in the classroom
http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/index.html

ESRI Education Community
http://edcommunity.esri.com/

 


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