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A follow-up to Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators, this second volume in the Our World GIS Education series contains updated materials and lessons that combine geography, data collection, mapping, and critical analysis to guide educators and students through course content in new ways. Students acquire and continue building broad-based problem-solving skills as the lessons progress. Ideal for novice and seasoned GIS users alike, Mapping Our World Using GIS contains lesson plans, step-by-step instructions, illustrations, important questions and answers, data, a Teacher Resource CD, and a one-year trial license for ArcGIS software.
About the authors:
Anita M. Palmer is an educational technology consultant based in Texas. She is the co-author of Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators and Community Geography: GIS in Action Teacher's Guide.
Roger Palmer is co-founder of GISetc, based in Dallas, Texas. Roger Palmer has been a high school chemistry, physics, and environmental science teacher for fifteen years. Convinced of students' multiple learning styles, Roger incorporates a good mix of hands-on laboratory work, group projects, problem solving, reading sources, student competition, and fieldwork into his classes. Together with his wife, Anita, their company has offered teachers from California to Pennsylvania, Florida to North Dakota, GIS workshops in this approach.
Lyn Malone is a consultant specializing in the educational application of spatial technologies. She is based in Rhode Island. She is the co-author of Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators and Community Geography: GIS in Action Teacher's Guide.
Christine L. Voigt is a technology coordinator in Texas. She is the co-author of Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators and Community Geography: GIS in Action Teacher's Guide.
ISBN: 978-1-58948-181-7 2008 200 pages $49.95 |
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