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Geospatial Semester

Geospatial Semester. Aadahl, Keranen, Lewandowski, Rittenhouse, Tatum. James Madison University. HISTORY OF GEOSPATIAL SEMESTER Keranen HOW TO ADVERTISE Aadahl PROJECTS, PROJECTS, PROJECTS Tatum COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP Rittenhouse AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL Lewandowski.

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Geospatial Semester

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  1. Geospatial Semester Aadahl, Keranen, Lewandowski, Rittenhouse, Tatum James Madison University

  2. HISTORY OF GEOSPATIAL SEMESTER Keranen • HOW TO ADVERTISE • Aadahl • PROJECTS, PROJECTS, PROJECTSTatum • COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP • Rittenhouse • AT THE DISTRICT LEVELLewandowski

  3. Gov. Warner (Chair of National Governors Association) focused on High School VA Geospatial Instructional Applications Initiative – ESRI State Site License No Project Based Experience SOL’s are crippling Dr. Kolvoord – geospatial semester Dual Credit Course High School and JMU

  4. CTE COURSE CODE • SENIOR SCIENCE COURSE CODE • PAID BY INDIVIDUAL, COUNTY OR • COMBINATION • GEOGRAPHY CREDIT • ACCEPTED BY JMU, VT, Others

  5. Progression • 1st Year 4 Schools • 2nd Year 7 Schools • 3rd Year 13 Schools 200 students

  6. Promoting GIS • & GIS Day • Lafayette High School • Williamsburg, VA

  7. Architectural Design Geocaching APVA-Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Colonial Williamsburg-Virtual Museum Mariner’s Museum

  8. Registered with GISDAY.com

  9. Lafayette High School • Geospatial Projects

  10. Western Albermarle County High School • Community and School Partnership

  11. High School partnership with local office • TNC Goal: Protect 10% of watershed • Objective:Establish target areas • Rivanna River Watershed

  12. Task: Determine Imperviousness • Analysis: 3 methodologies • USGS Imperviousness Product • NLCD Land Cover Classes • County Planimetrics Data • Rivanna River Watershed

  13. Results? • Requested Products: • Comparison of Methodologies • Maps and shapefiles • Time estimate of planimetrics calculations

  14. PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL DISTRICT • Dan Lewandowski

  15. Daniel Lewandowski Program Specialist – Office of Science Department of Curriculum and Instruction

  16. Virginia’s Public School Curricular Challenge Create a competent workforce in: Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

  17. Currently, spatial thinking is not systematically instructed in the K-12 curriculum, despite its fundamental importance. Report to the Nation, April 2006

  18. Spatial literacy is not a stand-alone subject in the way that Physics, Biology, and Economics are. Instead, it’s a way of thinking that cuts across most other disciplines.

  19. To foster spatial literacy in students schools need to take an approach similar to the movement to teach writing “across the curriculum” That is, to integrate spatial thinking into instruction in all appropriate content areas.

  20. Maintaining a sustainable niche within the growing DE movement • Crossing curricula • Building - Infusing the Curricula • Professional Development • Real World Opportunities Future Challenge

  21. CONTACTS: • Dr. Bob Kolvoord • kolvoora@jmu.edu

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