New activity - Experience GIS for Construction
Students can now experience how GIS and drones are used in a construction workflow - Experience GIS for Construction. This activity includes:
- Reading a real example of GIS and drone use in construction
- Answering some questions about what they've read
- Using drone data on a map and seeing how flight paths and control points were used
- Understanding how drone data can be used to extract information (in this case, a stockpile volume)
- (Optional) Following a tutorial to map the drone images they just explored and calculate the stockpile volume
No accounts? No problem - They aren't needed
Students can get hands-on using GIS for construction without having an account. The first part of the activity can be completed without one. If the students have accounts, there is more in the activity that they can continue to do.
Where does the activity fit in the classroom?
Consider incorporating this activity into the following career clusters and pathways in CTE programs:
- Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC)
- Architecture, construction, transportation, and manufacturing
- Construction and building trades
- Construction technologies
- Construction occupations
- Building and moving
- Automotive and construction technologies
Teaching a higher ed unit on construction management, safety and compliance, or drone use? Your students will also benefit.
None of those apply to you? You can still use the activity - we are happy to see more students exposed to GIS.
Leave us a comment about how the activity worked for your students.
