Online courses worth a look
Well, February is waning and March is next week! Where does the time go? Within the perpetual motion of our days, we have run into a few more new materials to pass along to you. Don’t let the title of these resources fool you! Any educator who is involved in ArcGIS...
Climate Resources worth a look
As January wanes, there is no waning of amazing resources becoming available. This week we have a trilogy of them for your use in your classrooms. A beautifully created, and poignant, Story Map has been published, Climate Migrants. It is an exemplar of how to teach...
Don’t reinvent the map if you don’t have to…
Need some ready-to-use maps for teaching Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer? Looking for ways to make history approachable and current? Recently, we debuted our GeoInquiries page. Some of you might be thinking, “Why make a page of stuff that’s in another place?!” We shared one...
GIS Day 2016: Fight Evil…Make Maps
We believe that Earth is a beautiful planet. As we celebrate GIS Day around the world, many students and professionals alike will be sharing amazing data visualizations, helpful solutions to important issues, and telling stories with geography. Many of you are...
2016 ESC 7 Summit
Presenters Roger and Anita Palmer World History The Human Journey (Expansion out of Africa) GeoInquiry http://education.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=196f6340bd0541a09f772d0def74ddad Map http://esriurl.com/enviroGeoinquiry14 Columbian Exchange...
Good Question: Do you have resources on biodiversity hotspots?
While we do have some single lessons on our site, we didn’t have one that met this criteria exactly. We did find some resources online that might be helpful.Biodiversity Mapping has a nice collection that’s easy to...
Celebrating our Irish
Top of the morning to all of our geo-friends! The GISetc is showing off our Irish roots as you can see by our dancing. We also wanted to point you to some great map resources. Check out the geography of Irish surnames, take an aerial tour of Dublin or get the top 10...
Using GIS to Teach Common Core
Check out the latest project from Barbaree about using GIS to teach Common Core standards. This summer she added math and has a nifty portal to serve as home base. Click on over to www.barbareeduke.com/ccgis to get all the details. You could be mapping your way...
Grabbing a Bite on Vacation
We started brainstorming fun summer maps to post on our blog – and we started thinking about road trips…and then we got hungry…and then we came up with the idea of pulling together a collection of some of the coolest road trip fast food maps....
It’s a Citizen Science Summer
Fill your summer with citizen science adventures. Go outside and enhance your nature experience by engaging with online science sites and apps to transform every outing this summer into a learning experience. Here are our top ten favorite citizen science projects:...
Geocache Your Way through Summer
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”http://youtu.be/1YTqitVK-Ts”][vc_column_text]This summer, start geocaching! It’s an exciting way to engage your kids with technology and the concepts of mapping. Follow the links below to learn more about geocaching...