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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Affects of Geography on Colonial Cultures

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the effects of geography on the development of culture. They discuss how geography can affect the lifestyles and development of a society's culture. Students examine the geography and climate of New England and the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Researching Alternative Energy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the concept of energy using a hypothetical story. The power goes out in their house and they no longer can play your videogames. Students must create your own alternative power source. This story sets the stage...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hit The Road Jack(or Jill)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers find the approximate area of the court order on a current map of Delaware. They draw a layout of their school and decide where a new hallway or outside pathway would be most needed.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson L - Hit The Road Jack (or Jill)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss forms of transportation in Delaware during 18th Century, find approximate area of court order on current map of state, draw layout of their school, and decide where new hallway or outside pathway would be most needed.
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Article
Other

Space Applications Centre: Geographical Information System Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th
The introduction of this article explains why GIS data is so critical to a government being able to plan for natural resources development and management. The article goes on to explain key geographic concepts, what GIS is and why it...
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Handout
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: The Geographer's Craft Project: Gis as an Integrating Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview of GIS as a technology that brings different kinds of geographical data together to create something that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Looking Into Earth With Gis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Multi-instructional activity activity where students will work with data from a seismic wave model in a GIS (geographic information system) program. They will examine maps, select data, and produce graphs to explore variations in seismic...
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Website
Other

Archaeology Data Service: Gis Guide to Good Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
This document is designed specifically to provide guidance for individuals and organizations involved in the creation, maintenance, use and long-term preservation of GIS-based digital resources.
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Global Gis Lesson: Exploring North American Earthquakes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this series of lessons, students use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) together with the tools and data from the North America Global GIS CD to investigate earthquakes, volcanoes, and population from a local to global scale....
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mapping Local Data in a Gis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will learn how to conduct a map-based science research project using a Geographic Information System (GIS). They will design an experiment, collect and record geospatial data, analyze geospatial relationships...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring Ncar Climate Change Data Using Gis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With ArcGIS and climate data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate Change Scenarios GIS Data Portal, students learn the basics of GIS-based climate modeling.
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Article
University of California

Univ. Of Melbourne: Managing Uncertainty in Gis

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit of the NCGIA core curriculum in GIS (Geographic Information Science), the author gives a full discussion of uncertainty, its sources, how to deal with it, what plans to make. Very thorough.
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Activity
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Analyzing Hurricanes Using Web and Desktop Gis

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students research hurricane data to discover their behavior and patterns. They map them across decades to see whether their frequency is increasing. They study Hurricane Andrew and investigate the relationship between...
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Lesson Plan
National Geographic

National Geographic: The Politics of Place Naming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners use an online geographic information system (GIS) to uncover the geographic and social context of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. They map street locations to identify regional patterns in honoring King, consider...
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Interactive
Other

Ark Gis: Exploring the Arctic

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive mapping platform that combines and integrates existing data about the environment and human activity in the Arctic.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Searching for Bigfoot and Others Like Him

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Cryptids, creatures of questionable existence, are used as a source of data to guide students into the creation of their own GIS data layer in Google Earth. The activity serves the purpose of a tutorial to teach students how to make data...
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Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Andorra

For Students 9th - 10th
Compilation of religious data and research about Andorra, along with regional and world comparisons. Includes select socioeconomic data, GIS maps (road, satellite, hybrid) and an insightful mix of information about religious membership...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Gis to Map Emergency Response to Municipal Flooding

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will work with municipal data and computer mapping to determine the priorities of emergency response to flooding in a local town. This can be used as a lab activity or as a group or individual project, and can be...
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Website
Columbia University

Nasa: Sedac: Population, Landscape, and Climate Estimates

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A huge resource for researchers without GIS capabilities who need data on population and land area by country across a range of physical characteristics. These include measures such as the number of...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Detecting El Nino in Sea Surface Temperature Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through data analysis and observations of patterns, students learn about normal seasonal sea surface temperature variation as well as extreme variation, as in the case of El Nino and La Nina events, in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Renewable Energy Living Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and access its real-world solar energy data to evaluate the potential for solar generation in various U.S. locations. They become familiar with where the most...
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Handout
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Error, Accuracy, & Precision

For Students 9th - 10th
A serious paper by serious geographers, discussing at full length the problems caused by error, inaccuracy, and imprecision in Geographical Information Systems. The definitive word in the real world.
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Graphic
University of California

Us Geological Survey: Cartogram Central

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The USGS offers detailed information on Types of Cartograms, Congressional Districts, Software for Cartograms, Publications, and a Carto-Gallery.
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Article
Other

Asia Foundation: Information and Communication Technology for Development [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A two-page overview of how this organization supports the growth of information and communication technology in Asia, what types of technology it promotes, and why it is such an important issue to the development and modernization of...