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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students use a GPS unit to find waypoints on various rectangular areas (city blocks.) They download these points to ArcView and overlay the points on a city map. They use formulas to find distance and midpoints and finally, they determine if the city was set square North/South. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to a unit on how the GPS works and how to view and download way points onto the program ArcView. They use the GPS to make way points of their home. Students then find a DOQQ of the county and put the way points in the DOQQ. They are responsible for naming and labeling the way points. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss environmental concerns regarding abandoned wells and use GPS units to map the locations of abandoned wells. They design an ArcView 3.3 map with specified components and write a reflective essay on the "Rescue of Baby Jessica" which focuses on abandoned wells and their Safety Issues. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students complete a virtual tour of the finest art museums in the US and throughout the world. They create their own PowerPoint presentation to present to the class on art and artist of a given country and use ArcView 3.3 and GIS software to create a map to illustrate and support their ideas. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students walk through some of the basic capacities of Arc View. They create a map of a county showing land ownership. Pupils create an overlay with their name on it and print it out. Students use the transporation theme of their county to identify where their home is and some landmarks. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students analyze map to determine where most sunflowers are grown in five-state region, and use ArcView and Prairie to Mountain Explorer CD to create Choropleth Map showing number of acres of sunflower seeds harvested in 1992. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students work in pairs (or individually) to develop a plan for a highway or other type of pathway between two points in the local area between 10 and 40 miles apart, and including some hilly or mountainous terrain. The lesson relies on the student being able to use ArcView software, a commercially available program. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
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Students use the internet to locate information about earthquake events in a two month period. They copy and paste information onto Microsoft Excel (step by step instructions are included with the lesson). Students use the ArcView software program to save the file. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students perform research to locate information about bird migration. They answer questions about the information from the student worksheet. Using ArcView software, students find the distance between the first and second sightings. They use the information tool to find details about each sighting. Students resort the data looking for patterns. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss using GPS data, putting it into GIS and displaying in ArcView. They also use results of GPS datalogging exercise and record the lat, long, height, species, and trunk diameter of 4 trees. (or lat/long and attributes of any other object) on a paper data sheet. Finally, students completes the process of adding GPS data to a GIS. Full Review »

