Map Out Your Summer! | Esri Academy Courses to Elevate Your Lesson Plans
Summer is a break that is well-deserved as an educator—thank you for all you do to help and nurture the minds and leaders of tomorrow.
It also provides a great opportunity to build GIS skills, explore real-world data tools, and refresh your lesson plans for the upcoming school year.
If you are curious how you can integrate GIS and ArcGIS into your classroom, the courses below (all on Esri Academy) are great options for your learning and planning. These courses are designed to help you bring GIS into the classroom with confidence and inspire curiosity and learning:
Teaching with GIS: Field Data Collection Using ArcGIS
- Empower students to engage in STEM, civic learning, and citizen science by designing and executing real-world field data collection projects using ArcGIS Field Maps and ArcGIS Online.
ArcGIS for Teachers: Collecting and Mapping Your Own Data
- Learn how to gather your own classroom-relevant data and visualize it through interactive maps to enrich student inquiry and spatial thinking.
Use a Map for Classroom Instruction
- Discover practical strategies for integrating interactive maps into lessons to enhance student engagement and geographic literacy across subjects.
Data Skills for Teachers: Creating Attributes to Support Inquiry
- Build foundational GIS data skills by learning how to create and manage attribute data that supports student-driven investigations.
Data Skills for Teachers: Transferring Attributes from One Map Layer to Another
- Master the techniques of joining and transferring data between map layers to help students uncover spatial relationships and patterns.
Teaching with ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World
- Explore how to use the rich, ready-to-use content in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World to create dynamic, data-rich lessons that connect students to real-world issues.
Additionally, we have learning plans created for educators looking to expand their knowledge and usage of GIS and ArcGIS. Check them out here.
We hope you enjoy summer, are able to take time for yourself, and keep inspiring the minds of tomorrow through GIS.
