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Mapping Our World
GIS Lessons for Educators
$155
Deepen your students' understanding of the world with geographic information system software.
Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators is the first complete resource for any teacher seeking to bring geographic information system (GIS) technology into the middle- or high-school classroom. In addition to nineteen complete GIS lesson plans, Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators includes a one-year license of ArcView 3.x, geographic data for all of the lessons, a Teacher Resource CD, and a companion Web site. This comprehensive educational resource gives novice GIS educators all the tools they need to begin teaching with GIS. Teachers with more GIS experience will find the lessons and data ideal points of departure for more complex and extended inquiries.
The seven modules of the book are built around different geographic themes. Students investigate each theme on three different levels, with a different lesson for each level.
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Community Geography in Action
$80
Designed for teachers who want to use Community Geography: GIS In Action with their students, this guide provides teachers with all the resources they'll need to complete the GIS exercises and self-guided projects with middle school and high school students. These resources include lesson plans, correlation to National Geography and National Science and Technology Standards, assessments, evaluation rubrics, and extensive teacher tips on completing community GIS projects.
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GIS in Schools
In northern Minnesota, students use Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to track wolves, and a geographic information system--GIS--to analyse the animals' journeys across the winter landscape. On the east coast, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, high-school students stage a simulated spill of toxic chemicals, and manage the mock evacuation with the help of GIS.
These are just a few examples of the ways classrooms--and learning--are being transformed in elementary, middle, and high schools across North America. GIS in Schools documents these changes with case studies that show what can happen when students are given real-life problems to solve, and the technology of GIS to help solve them: new enthusiasm for learning, new dialogues between teachers and students, and new levels of interaction among schools and communities.
In addition, GIS in Schools offers teachers practical ideas about how to implement GIS inside the classroom, as well as some theory behind the success stories.
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Exploring Water Resources: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences (with CD-ROM)
by Michelle K. Hall-Wallace (Editor), C. Scott Walker, Larry P. Kendall, Christian J. Schaller
The popularity of geographic information system (GIS) software as a tool in the social and physical sciences is growing rapidly. These three modular investigation guides let even novice users tap the power of ArcView GIS to explore, manipulate, and analyse large data sets. Carefully designed and class tested, the guides emphasize the visualization, analysis, and multimedia integration capabilities inherent to GIS, while minimizing the need to master a complex software package.
These books make the nuts and bolts of using ArcView GIS transparent to your students. By focusing on teaching with GIS rather than teaching about it, you can incorporate GIS easily into homework, discussions, or lab sessions. This flexible teaching resource motivates and enables your students to learn by doing as they use a full complement of GIS capabilities.
Exploring the Dynamic Earth, Exploring tropical cyclones, Exploring Water Resources: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences complement any introductory course in meteorology, oceanography, physical geography, natural hazards, Earth sciences, atmospheric science, and Earth systems science. The guides lead students through a set of exercises in which they are asked to explore, analyse, and then elaborate on the information extracted from a robust GIS dataset using ArcView, the dominant GIS software tool in the school and college market. The GIS information has been pre-processed into maps and legends, and some ArcView procedures have been automated so students can focus on the content. Extensive classroom testing at both the college and high school levels shows that students have little difficulty using the ArcView data sets to perform the exercises.
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Exploring Water Resources
Exploring the Dynamic Earth
Exploring Tropical Cyclones
Exploring The Ocean Environment
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