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...Following Your #SummerPhotos on the Map
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...
Creative Summer Projects with Maps
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...
A Teacher’s Adventure from Costa Rica to California
For those of you that follow us regularly, you know we are heavily involved with the Geoporter organization. Today we wanted to share a special story from their community… Margarita Gamboa, a local teacher from Bahia Ballena, Costa Rica, will be traveling to the...
It’s World Environment Day!
Every year, the United Nations sets the theme for World Environment Day and raises awareness for their cause. In 2014, World Environment Day is focusing on our rising seas. Learn more about our waters and reflect on what you can do to help change our planet. The...
#GraduationTrends
A teachers, each year we watch the graduation rates rise and fall, measuring our success – and sometimes the shortfalls of our system. It’s very exciting to see graduation rates on a steady rise! Take a look at what this year and the years hold in store...
Social Butterflies
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Did you know we are social butterflies? If you found this, obviously, you know we blog. But have you connected with us through social media? Click on the links below to like us on facebook; follow us on...
Honoring & Remembering Our Troops
With Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day both falling in May, as a nation, we all reflected on the call to service and sacrifice or our service men and women in our military. Freedom isn’t free, and we appreciate and recognize all soldiers, whether on active duty,...
Mapping from National Geographic
National Geographic has a depth of cartographic resources online! We’ve been browsing their selection of educational content and found several free resources we thought you would enjoy sharing with your students. Location and Place in Your Classroom Introduction...
Global Selfie Day
GISetc is wishing all a Happy Earth Day! Today we will post several pics on this blog and our social network channels to NASA to “create an image of Earth from the ground up.” Get outside today and take your#GlobalSelfie, help NASA and put yourself on...