Education Blog

Since the initial release of GeoInquiries in 2014, millions of students have experienced how GIS can bring a new, spatial perspective to many different subject areas. By all pedagogical accounts, this program with its curriculum-first design was very successful.

As spring rolls across the northern hemisphere, many students (and teachers) long to get outdoors.  It’s a great opportunity to engage kids in field data work. 

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.

All I wanted to find… was the Great Wall of China. I didn’t need each historic section, or attributes related to the materials used. I just wanted a basic polyline, of the Great Wall, that I could use in ArcGIS Online. I couldn’t find it.

ArcGIS Online holds so much promise for data sharing… but we are still hiding an amazing wealth of data away in silos. Data has been siloed off because of a lack of data sharing, poor metadata, permissions issues, and other reasons. But we can start to tear down some of these walls!

MapMaker has large catalogue of carefully curated maps and data for schools that supports a wide range of curriculum areas. This short blog will highlight three new additions to the collection that have an Oceans theme or connection:

Read on for Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Currents in Motion and Sea Floor Crustal Age.

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.

How can Earth changes be effectively, quickly, and engagingly taught?  How can remote sensing principles be taught in an interactive way?  The new Landsat Explorer app can serve as a tool, method, and a data set to do just that, as this essay and lesson explains. 

You and your students can powerfully and easily examine current events using Web GIS data and tools.  This essay models the examination of one such current event, the Smokehouse Creek wildfire, which is sadly consuming much terrain in Texas and impacting many lives. 

One of the topics I frequently write and teach about is how to find, evaluate, and use geospatial data.  Given the advance of the open data movement, the plethora of geospatial data libraries, portals, and Hub sites, and the increasing ease of bringing that data into ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and other tools, is such a course still needed?  I submit that it is needed more than ever, for the reasons I describe in this article.  This article also contains the content for this much-needed course. 

The use of location data in data science brings new insights to problem-solving across various industries.

Join us on December 7, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., for the webinar Discover the Power of Spatial Data Science for Advancing Knowledge.