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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students use resources such as the National Geographic magazine feature Africa MegaFlyover to find out more about how GIS is used. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students help their state by using a "smart map"-Geography Information System (GIS) technology on the Web-to find and report the exact location of their school's front entrance. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students work with databases within this lesson. They emphasis on constructing a database for business use for employee personnel records, inventory control, and utilize GPS/GIS instruction as a portion of the unit to highlight how databases are used in that particular technology. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students manipulate existing GIS data to create and map a new layer of information that shows that watersheds in Travis County that are on top of Edwards Aquifer. They create and map that shows the watersheds in Travis County that are on top of the Edwards Aquifer. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students practice cartography using GIS technology. They create a map of Austin using GIS and aerial photos. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students describes the technique of preparing "GIS-ready" data and shows how to map that data and conduct basic analyses using a geographic information system (GIS).They use latitude and longitude fields to plot the data in a GIS and analyze patterns by querying records and overlaying datasets Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Higher Ed
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Students measure a topographic and geologic cross-section across a floodplain by simple surveying and auguring techniques. They consider the spatial context of the field observations, use GPS measurements, and desktop GIS analyses. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students review previous concepts (GIS is a tool, data from other sources can be used together, GIS stores data and this data can be retrieved). Then, they discuss value and accuracy of point information and the areas between sample locations. Students then compare soil type layer and yield map and complete a Zonal Statistic graph. 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 »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students use the introduction to the GIS PPT to identify the review tools for precision farming. Then, they identify the difference between a paper road map and GIS and discuss various examples. Students also identify the functions of a GIS and list examples of these functions. Full Review »
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