Education Blog - Page 2

Have students color a map to demonstrate knowledge, plan a route, design a city, share where they've been or want to go... the possibilities are endless. Start by printing blank maps from MapMaker. Use the Black and White Outline basemap.

Use these GIS resources in your K-12 instruction as you head back to the classroom this fall.

Do you have a teacher you'd like to see bring maps into their classroom? Have you heard the buzz around MapMaker for the classroom? Now the Esri Academy course Use a map for classroom instruction introduces teachers to maps using MapMaker.

The June 2024 update to MapMaker brings improvements for working with sketches and sublayers. There are also better notifications if you've made changes you might want to save. And as we regularly update and add data, there are new maps and layers ready for your classroom.

In this webinar, recorded on July 31st at 10:00 a.m. (PT), learn about free resources that you can use in your classroom now, including maps, data, software, and activities. Discover how to quickly integrate spatial tools to enhance your teaching.

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. 

What is the first Earth Day you remember? What are you doing -- every day -- to help?

Want to have a little fun with earth science? Check out the "special days" using National Geographic MapMaker!

Powerful tools to help students quantify change and predict the future!

Hey, educators in high school and college, are you and your colleagues ready to face new students with multiple years of GIS experience?