I recently conducted a full day K-12 workshop for educators. This essay provides the content, data, and tools that I included in this workshop. I am posting this so that the educators who participated can dig deeper into the tools after the workshop ended, but also for other educators to use.
Tenets: Maps are analytical tools, not just reference documents. Interactive maps through GIS foster critical, spatial, and holistic thinking. GIS allows "what if ..." inquiry to take place. Teaching with GIS is active problem based learning, involving community connectedness and rich field experiences. Scale matters! Change over space and time can be grappled with using these data sets, tools, and perspectives.
Themes: Natural hazards, energy, water, history, mathematics, invasive species, biomes, regions, transportation, weather and climate, population change, land use, change over space and time.
Morning: Primary School Educators:
The NatGeo Esri MapMaker: https://esriurl.com/mapmaker
Esri Geoinquiries: https://esri.com/geoinquiries
The ArcGIS Living Atlas Apps
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/52ae78c57b3a4924bff9fd490d76ee10 Wayback, Sentinel-2, Water Bal, USGS Topo
10 lessons: litter mapping, bivariate – lesson 3 and 4:
https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/an-introduction-to-gis-as-an-open-course-with-10/ba-p/1204626
Collect data in field > Map > Analyze > communicate: Walkability example:
https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/how-walkable-is-your-community/ba-p/883382
Scatter Plots, bivariate mapping:
https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/examining-relationships-between-variables-charts/ba-p/1245143
ArcGIS Platform slide from Connecting GIS Workshop:
https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/new-workshop-and-lesson-on-connecting-surveys-maps/ba-p/1419582
Why Where Matters to students, faculty, and society:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/edd676b67f5f4c749ab3e6922bd9237a
Including Living Atlas Apps.
10 strategies for teaching with GIS:
https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/what-are-10-key-strategies-for-teaching-gis/ba-p/1104782
10 skills important to teaching with GIS:
https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/what-are-the-10-most-important-gis-skills-to/ba-p/1079912
10 benefits of teaching with GIS:
https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/what-are-the-10-most-important-educational/ba-p/1094091
Ethics, Data, and Societal Implications: https://spatialreserves.wordpress.com
Resources to dig deeper: Esri Press, T3G, Esri Community blog, Intermountain GIS conference, Esri Education Summit, and others.
Afternoon: Secondary School Educators:
Esri NatGeo MapMaker: https://esriurl.com/mapmaker
The ArcGIS Living Atlas Apps:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/52ae78c57b3a4924bff9fd490d76ee10 Wayback, Sentinel-2, Water Bal, USGS Topo
Selected activities from our new mathematics-mapping book:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003305613/teaching-mathematics-using-interactive-mapping-sandra-arlinghaus-joseph-kerski-william-arlinghaus
10 lessons: Litter mapping, bivariate – lesson 3 and 4:
https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/an-introduction-to-gis-as-an-open-course-with-10/ba-p/1204626
Scatter Plots, bivariate mapping:
https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/examining-relationships-between-variables-charts/ba-p/1245143
Connect these tools and methods:
Collect data in field > Map > Analyze > communicate: Walkability: https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/how-walkable-is-your-community/ba-p/883382
Resources to dig deeper: Esri Press, T3G, Esri Community blog, Intermountain GIS conference, Esri Education Summit, and others.
