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Digital Media Resources Available from GISMAPED

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All prices are exclusive of GST and include postage and packaging unless otherwise stated. To order email Anne Olsen

 

 

Imagis: Interactive Mapping Resource

$155

IMAGIS consists of two disks. Disk 1 is a self loading disk that contains GIS projects and lessons relating to the New Zealand curriculum Disk 2 contains data in shapefile format that teachers can use to create their own projects and lessons

Lesson topics include:

  • The world at Night
  • HIV/Aids
  • The location of McDonalds
  • The Olympics
  • NZ population studies
  • Earthquakes in New Zealand
  • Natural Hazards
  • Tropical Cyclones in the SW Pacific
  • Tourist development in Queenstown, Kaikoura and Rotorua
  • Where do students have lunch?
  • Journey to scho ol
  • Planning in the Tasman District
  • Mapping the NZ election results
  • Disparities in development in Tanzania and the USA
  • Climate on New Zealand
  • Farming in New Zealand
  • Surf’s Up
  • Tsunamis

All lessons are designed for use with ESRI ArcView 3.x. (IMAGIS-9 is planned for the end 2007) ArcView software is needed to use the projects on these disks.

 

 

Geoflight Initial Software

$280+GST - a one off licence fee
$350+GST for each major city theme Perth Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane available.

New Zealand themes developed so far are Mts Taranaki and Tongariro. These will be launched at SocCom (Social Sciences Conference) in September. Suggestions are welcome regarding the curriculum focus that schools would like developed. http://www.geoflight.com.au

 

 

Resource Files

Available for $10 (Cost of CDR and postage)
in .shp format for use with Arcview. Request any combination of the following:
  • Pastoral data for New Zealand 2000 – at level of every individual farm
  • Electoral boundaries
  • Meshblock
  • Area Units
  • TLA
  • Regional council
  • NZ roads and centrelines
  • NZ places – all main, secondary and minor urban place with some rural places
  • Generalised relief, geology, farming types

GIS projects

Nztutor

Introductory skills and two Geographic inquiries using the data one on relationships between relief and infrastructure and the other the pattern of earthquakes
GIS in school price: $25 Non- programme school $30

 

 

Gateway into Bali

Produced by Stereo Aids in Australia.
$215 +gst

V ery useful in a tourism development programme for year 13.


 

 

Assessment activities

Available free

US11087 Level 2, 3 credits
Use GIS for a specific task - an examplar based on a shopping centre study. Includes GIS activity using Wellington data, assessment activity and marking schedule(moderated)

US11088 Level 3, 3 credits
Use a geographic information system to derive a solution to a specific task. An examplar showing how this Unit standard can be integrated into AS 3.5, AS 3.6

To order any of these resources contact Anne Olsen. We hope to offer online ordering in the near future.