GeoMentor Case Study:
Casey Finedell
City/State of School, School District, or Group: Port Townsend, WA, Port Townsend School District
Grade level of students you or your educator collaborator work/worked with: Jen Manning teaches middle school science. The class in which I have been volunteering is a 7th grade STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math).
Subject/topic of class/group you assisted your collaborator with: Introduction to maps - from basic mapping concepts to real world examples. Discussed everything from Lat/Long and Great Circles to map generalization and visualization of demographics through chloropleth maps.
Approximately how many students were engaged in GIS activities through this collaboration: