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Ordnance Survey: Mapzone: Gis Zone

For Students 3rd - 8th
Understand the digitalization of maps at the end of te twentieth century. Discover what GIS stands for, what it does, and how it helps many people in the world.
Interactive
National Geographic

National Geographic: Gis in Action

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use maps to solve problems and help animals. Click on an animal to learn important facts, then click on the map to see layers of different kinds of information.
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Other

Archaeology Data Service: Gis Guide to Good Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
This document is designed specifically to provide guidance for individuals and organizations involved in the creation, maintenance, use and long-term preservation of GIS-based digital resources.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Global Gis Lesson: Exploring North American Earthquakes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this series of lessons, young scholars use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) together with the tools and data from the North America Global GIS CD to investigate earthquakes, volcanoes, and population from a local to global scale....
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University of British Columbia

Ubc: What Is Gis?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a university-level introduction to GIS. It provides a comprehensive outline of important topics in this field of study.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Gis and Careers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about GIS technology for solving problems and learn how employers seek workers who know how to make good decisions in a complex world.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mapping Local Data in a Gis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will learn how to conduct a map-based science research project using a Geographic Information System (GIS). They will design an experiment, collect and record geospatial data, analyze geospatial relationships...
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Other

Esri Gis Education Community

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Educators can incorporate ESRI GIS into their classroom to enrich geography lessons and use this community to trade ideas with other educators.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Looking Into Earth With Gis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Multi-instructional activity activity where young scholars will work with data from a seismic wave model in a GIS (geographic information system) program. They will examine maps, select data, and produce graphs to explore variations in...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is Gis?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Geographic information systems (GIS) are important technology that allows rapid study and use of spatial information. GIS have become increasingly prevalent in industry and the consumer/internet world in the last 20 years. Historically,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Earthquakes With Arc Explorer Gis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity allows students to predict future earthquake activity by interpreting the results of geographic information system (GIS) analysis.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring Ncar Climate Change Data Using Gis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With ArcGIS and climate data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate Change Scenarios GIS Data Portal, learners learn the basics of GIS-based climate modeling.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Gis Exploration Using the High Plains Aquifer Databases

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work with databases and GIS to develop saturated thickness maps. Each database consists of observations made by drillers where they have encountered the High Plains aquifer base and the annual water-level measurements taken in...
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Other

Ark Gis: Exploring the Arctic

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive mapping platform that combines and integrates existing data about the environment and human activity in the Arctic.
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Other

Great Lakes Information Network

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Lakes Science Center provides research on various topics concerning the Great Lake environment such as fish advisories, contaminants, threatened species, low water levels, and sustainable development of the Lakes.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Gis to Map Emergency Response to Municipal Flooding

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will work with municipal data and computer mapping to determine the priorities of emergency response to flooding in a local town. This can be used as a lab activity or as a group or individual project, and can be...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Projections and Coordinates: Turning a 3 D Earth Into Flatlands

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Projections and coordinates are key advancements in the geographic sciences that allow us to better understand the nature of the Earth and how to describe location. These innovations in describing the Earth are the basis for everything...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Renewable Energy Living Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and access its real-world solar energy data to evaluate the potential for solar generation in various U.S. locations. They become familiar with where the most...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Searching for Bigfoot and Others Like Him

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Cryptids, creatures of questionable existence, are used as a source of data to guide students into the creation of their own GIS data layer in Google Earth. The activity serves the purpose of a tutorial to teach students how to make data...
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Asia Foundation: Information and Communication Technology for Development [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A two-page overview of how this organization supports the growth of information and communication technology in Asia, what types of technology it promotes, and why it is such an important issue to the development and modernization of...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Cities Affect Their Local Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the urban heat island effect with My World GISTM and GLOBE Program surface temperature student data. After completing this chapter, students will be able to successfully download GLOBE Program datasets in the...
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Columbia University

Nasa: Sedac: Population, Landscape, and Climate Estimates

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A huge resource for researchers without GIS capabilities who need data on population and land area by country across a range of physical characteristics. These include measures such as the number of...
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Other

Cyber Sierra: Natural Resources Job Search

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore jobs in natural resources, forestry, GIS and environmental sciences, in government, nonprofits and international bodies.
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University of California

Us Geological Survey: Cartogram Central

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The USGS offers detailed information on Types of Cartograms, Congressional Districts, Software for Cartograms, Publications, and a Carto-Gallery.

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