A GeoInquiry is a 15-minute, pre-built activity designed by Esri Education that allows teachers to cover required content using a free, online, interactive map. The activities are standards-based and closely follow the map concepts taught in leading U.S. textbooks.

Because they are published under Creative Commons, they can be loaded to the school or district learning management system such as Edmodo, Blackboard, Portals, or Google Classroom. A flipped classroom setting is perfect for this type of experience. Assign students the GeoInquiry for investigating prior to a class discussion or further investigation.

• Religious Diversity and the Scarlet Letter
• Virus of Fear: Witches
• Poe and the Red Death
• Chancellorsville and The Red Badge of Courage
• Twain: Travel Blogger
• Hurricane Warning (Issac’s Storm, Their Eyes Were Watching God)
• Our Town, Your Town
• The Great Gatsby
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Depression, Dust & Steinbeck
• Hiroshima
• Dr. King’s Road to a Birmingham Jail
• Finding Mango Street
• Fahrenheit 451
• Surviving the Wild

• Population dynamics
• Megacities
• Down to the last drop
• Dead zones (water pollution)
• The Beagle’s Path
• Primary productivity
• Tropical Deforestation
• Marine debris
• El Nino (and climate)
• Slowing malaria
• Altered biomes
• Spinning up wind power
• Resource consumption and wealth
• The human journey
• Investigating biodiversity

• Topography and our national heritage
• Remote sensing
• Mining the world’s most used minerals
• Rock types tell stories
• North American landforms
• Cracked plates (tectonics)
• The earth moves under our feet (earthquakes)
• Plate type effect on volcanoes
• Mountain building
• A river runs through it (freshwater)
• Ocean features
• Fluid Earth: winds and currents
• How’s the weather?
• Tropical storms
• Climate change

Level 2

• Cracked Places – Earthquake prone
• Earth moves – Seismic stations
• Mountain Building – volcanoes
• Oceans: Hotspots
• Rivers – Watershed Analysis

• Biomes and ecosystems
• Time zones
• Street maps
• Settlement patterns: people and water
• Exploring Elevation with Lewis and Clark
• Discovering map scale
• Where does the water go? (watersheds)
• Climate
• Seismic events: natural hazards
• Mississippi River exploration
• Expansion of the United States
• Public lands and national parks
• Weather forecasting
• Energy production
• Natural resources and regions

•  D=RxT
• Rates and Proportions: A Lost Beach
• Linear Growth
• How much rain? LInear Equations
• Rates of population change
• Distance and Midpoint
• The coordinate plane
• Euclidean vs. Non-Euclidean
• Area and Perimeter at the mall
• Measuring Crop Circles
• Areas of Complex Figures
• Similar Triangles
• Perpendicular Bisectors
• Centers of Triangles (triangle circumcenter)
• Volume of pyramids

• The Great Exchange
• The 13 Colonies – 1700s
• The War Before Independence (The American Revolution)
• The War of 1812
• Westward, ho! (Trails west)
• The Underground Railroad
• From Compromise to Conflict
• A nation divided: The Civil War
• Native American Lands
• Steel and the birth of a city (natural resources)
• World War I
• Dust Bowl
• A day that lived in infamy (Pearl Harbor)
• Operation Overlord – D-Day
• Hot spots in the Cold War

Level 2

• Underground Railroad Enslaved
• Steel City Coal Power
• Dust Bowl Population Shift
• World War I
• Day of Infamy Strike Zone

• March of time 
• Running hot and cold 
• Earth moves
• Life on the edge
• Crossing the line 
• Growing pains
• Standards of living
• A line in the sand 
• Population and phone lines 
• The Arabian peninsula 
• Seasonal differences 
• Wealth of nations 
• Eye on Central America 
• Water world 
• North American trade
• Level 2
• Cities at Risk
• GDP Per Capita
• Net Migration
• Central American Population

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