Education Blog

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Can you find the patterns and relationships in traffic patterns, homeless encampments, public libraries, climate change, and more? More than 600 students in grades 4-12 attempted it. Want to see how they did?

An innovative partnership between K12 educators, a university, and industry (Esri) resulted in a year-long initiative to foster spatial thinking in teaching climate and sustainability topics through geotechnologies. 

If you want to showcase and interact with a group of maps, consider taking the new Atlas (Beta) Instant App for a spin!  Aside from exploring maps, Atlas also includes drawing tools a 2D-3D setting, and more.

What’s an AP teacher to do in May after AP tests are done?

To help understand where GIS (and geospatial keywords) can be found in K12 curriculum standards, we wrote a small program that harvested the 3,000+ state standards documents and scanned the content for the use of geospatial language. We looked for words like GIS, geospatial, spatial, geographic information, and global positioning.

The Esri Schools team has created a valuable GIS climate-related resources landing page to help in guiding K-12 climate curriculum development.

March 22, 2023, is World Water Day. (Yes, we do need such a day!) How will you mark this with your students? What resources will you use?

Most of us in the United States are not wealthy enough to not work.  By work, I mean to say that we trade our time (skilled or not) for money.  It most cases, the more skills one has, the higher salary one can draw.  When our skill set is in high demand, either from market expansion or scarcity of skilled laborers, our salary increases.  What’s the point of the arm-chair economics lesson?

The Esri K12 program and the AncestryClassroom™ team (formerly AncestryK12) are working together to offer a new StoryMap, intended to guide K12 students through their family’s data from the 1950 census.