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Tips and Tricks for Using GIS in the Classroom Teaching with New Geoscience Tools

Learn how to use GIS in the classroom and enhance your teaching with new geoscience tools, visualizations, models, and online data. Discover the advantages of GIS and how it can engage multiple capacities and intelligences. Explore different types of data layers and see how GIS can be used to study various aspects of the world. Get inspired with a list of classroom ideas and discover software options for GIS education.

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Tips and Tricks for Using GIS in the Classroom Teaching with New Geoscience Tools

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  1. Tips and Tricks for Using GIS in the Classroom Teaching with New Geoscience Tools Visualizations, Models, and Online Data Feb 10-12, 2008 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Presented by: Michelle Kinzel Campus GIS TA, M.S. Candidate, Oregon State University

  2. WHAT IS GIS? Geographic Information System: A computer system capable of storing, accessing and displaying data describing places on the earth’s surface. Geographic Information Science: A discipline that incorporatescartography, remote sensing and geographic information science.

  3. WHAT CAN GIS DO? GIS can capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of georeferenced data. Information can include geographic, social, political, environmental or demographic data, all displayed on a map.

  4. Geographic Inquiry

  5. ADVANTAGES OF GIS GIS maps.... • are interactive • allow for exploration and inquiry • allow you to choose features of interest for display GIS provides a way to view the world in ways pertinent to a specific industry or topic.

  6. ADVANTAGES OF GIS GIS engages and exercises multiple capacities and intelligences A. Critical thinking (ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate) B. Logical-mathematical intelligence 1. Numeracy 2. Technological capacity C. Linguistic intelligence 1. Literacy 2. Graphicacy D. Spatial intelligence 1. Map literacy E. Interpersonal intelligence 1. Communication

  7. GIS SORTS AND STORES INFORMATION IN DATA LAYERS

  8. Types of Data Images -Satellite Images -Aerial Photos • Raster Data • “grid data” ; continuously sampled cells of data • eg. Bathymetry, Elevation, Sea Surface Temperature • Vector Data • points, lines, & polygons • eg. Cities, Roads, States

  9. Why use GIS? • GIS is about finding patterns. • Integrate data from a variety of sources. • Answer questions of location: Where? Why? How? • Solve problems. • See patterns and trends not obvious in spreadsheet.

  10. GIS TRACKS OUR WEATHER...

  11. GIS CAN FORCAST GEOLOGICAL TRENDS... HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SEISMIC ACTIVITY INDEX

  12. GIS CAN MAP WILDLIFE POPULATIONS.....

  13. GIS CAN TRACK TIDAL CHANGES ALONG A COASTLINE.......

  14. GIS CAN TAKE YOU AROUND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD....... AROUND YOUR CITY...........

  15. Around your world! Image courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum

  16. Spatial Literacy Spatial Thinkers 3-D Visualizations: Architecture, Medicine, Physics, Sciences Spatial Literacy • Concept of Space • Tools of representation • Process of reasoning

  17. Using GIS to Study Your World • Remote tool: study the world quickly and from afar • Creates a “virtual world” inside your computer by integrating geographicdata (where things are found) with its informational data (what is present). • Data and maps can be updated instantaneously by the user

  18. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11019 Committee on Geography, National Resource Council

  19. GIS in Education • students can understand spatial patterns, linkages, trends and processes on a local, regional or global scale. • Possible to visually represent complex spatiotemporal relationships with GIS • Taps into technological proficiency • Engages digital learners • It’s fun and exciting!

  20. GIS in EducationList of Classroom Ideas • Planning school bus routes based on student residences • Studying water consumption patterns in arid areas • Designing noise abatement buffer zones around an airport • Mapping current sewer service areas and projected need • Profiling present bank customers by branch office • Identifying telephone market territories across the country • Researching changing wildlife habitat in a national park • Modeling hurricane evacuation scenarios in a coastal city • Laying out neighborhood newspaper delivery routes • Analyzing patterns of toxic wastes in area soils • Documenting archaeological sites and findings • Viewing global vegetation cover from satellite images

  21. Software OptionsESRI Products AEJEE – Arc Explorer Java Edition for Education Free Downloadable Lessons ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 ArcGIS Online

  22. ESRI GIS Education Community Portal

  23. Other Options

  24. Acknowledgements Thank you to Oregon State University, Department of Geosciences, On the Cutting Edge National Science Foundation

  25. DISCUSSION I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~Albert Einstein Image courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum

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