by gisetc | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured Content, Free Resources, Our Blog
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...
by gisetc | Nov 7, 2016 | Featured Content, Our Blog, Super Tuesdays 2012
Are you on the map? add your sticker join the sticker fun Show off your sticker Add your I Voted! sticker to the map Voting stickers popping up everywhere! So we thought…”hey, we could map those stickers!” We created a Crowdsource Story Map to do just that! Did you...
by gisetc | Jun 12, 2016 | Conferences, Free Resources, Our Blog, Presentation & Conference Archives
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...
by gisetc | Mar 28, 2016 | Conferences, Our Blog
Visit us!GIS & Geospatial SessionsNESTA Share-a-thons GISetc is hanging out with our friends from Esri in BOOTH 500. We have free materials, and great ideas to get mapping and analysis into your classroom. Stop by the booth and chat with us! Integrative 3-D...
by gisetc | Mar 17, 2015 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
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...
by gisetc | Jul 17, 2014 | Our Blog, Presentation & Conference Archives
Thanks for stopping by and spreading the joy of all things geo!
by gisetc | Jul 13, 2014 | Featured Content, Free Resources, Our Blog, Presentation & Conference Archives
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...
by Emily Adams | Jun 30, 2014 | Free Resources, Our Blog
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....
by Emily Adams | Jun 26, 2014 | Free Resources, Our Blog
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:...
by Emily Adams | Jun 23, 2014 | Free Resources, Our Blog
[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...
by Emily Adams | Jun 18, 2014 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Since it’s summer, most of us are spending a little more time on social media. If you’re like us, a lot of that means we’re taking and sharing more photos online of our summer fun – whether it’s vacations, time spent relaxing or on home...
by Emily Adams | Jun 16, 2014 | crafts, Free Resources, Our Blog
Are you crafty? Are you looking for some inspiration for creative projects to fill your summer months? Look no further! We have aggregated a few super cool resources FULL of ideas for crafting with MAPS! Instead of recycling your old maps or atlases, upcycle them! If...