Education Blog

The snow may be blowing as you look out your classroom window, but project-based learning is hot, all year around!  These GeoProjects are great for use in the winter: The Global Pet Survey, Mapping Favorite Color, One Two Tree, and Lichens and SO2 (outside).  

From career days to special projects, parents and community members are often eager to help out in the classroom. If you have a helper with GIS experience, there are a number of ways to get them involved. This handy guide helps a middle school teacher and a GIS professional make a plan and make the most of their time in the classroom.

Founded in 2008, iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature.

See our special collection of holiday resources that serve a wide range of k-12 classrooms. Come find an activity or resource to use during those last days and hours before the winter break.

ArcGIS StoryMaps can be used effectively to teach about spatial patterns through interactive mapping enabled by Web GIS.  Use this storymap to teach about where traditional Thanksgiving foods are grown and created but by extension, other foods and crops, and beyond Thanksgiving Day, throughout the year.

She wasn't a bad turkey - just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The next thing she knew, she had been rounded up with several other tasty-looking turkeys. Pickles the turkey wasn't panicked but she knew she was going to need some luck.

Esri is exhibiting at the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, from December 4-7. Join us.

In this essay I share a hands-on workshop with a goal of assisting faculty who wish to teach about climate principles, processes, and events by incorporating spatial and temporal thinking with modern GIS tools and spatial data. 

Grim, recent hurricane events shows once again how and why GIS is an effective tool for emergency response when lives are imperiled and property devastated.  In education, GIS can help students at all levels and across many disciplines understand the spatial and temporal patterns of hurricanes and typhoons from global to local scales.  This set of resources was written with heavy hearts for all those recently affected with an aim to help students and faculty become empowered with learning and teaching about these disastrous events. 

We are excited to invite educators to join us at NCSS 2024, where we’ll be showcasing the latest advancements in GIS technology for the classroom. Visit us in booth #717, Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street, Boston on November 22-23.