Education Blog - Page 2

Your students have done amazing work in ArcGIS Online that you’d like to share with the community or preserve even after the student has graduated. But they are minors, so their privacy needs to be protected and they shouldn’t be allowed to share publicly in your ArcGIS Organization. And when they graduate, you want to remove their ArcGIS Online account but not lose their work. So how can you share the work, while at the same time protecting their privacy and managing your organization accounts? A showcase account!

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).  

Esri is thrilled to announce its participation in the upcoming National Conference on Science Education, taking place from March 27-29 in Philadelphia, PA.

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.

What are the most important things for students to learn in our rapidly changing world?  In this essay and video, I describe the 10 most important things that I believe are important for student learning and invite your feedback. 

Enhance resource allocation, policy making, and community engagement with updated School district data. #EsriDemographics' latest release offers updated data for detailed analysis. Learn how to access it.

The November 2024 update to MapMaker is focused on workflows around information in the map. You can add pop-ups to sketches, create sketches from search results, see data in 3D without shadows by default, used an improved Map layers panel, and even close Map layers and keep working with an open table. And yes, of course we’ve added some new maps and layers that are ready for your classroom.

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.