GIS Based Science Inquiry Lessons
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Graphics, Spatial joins, summarizing tables |
Physical and Earth Sciences |
Temperature and precipitation data |
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Legend Editor, Sorting data in tables, selecting data from view |
Physical and Earth Sciences |
Plate tectonics and earthquakes |
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Mark Schaap |
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Classifying themes using Legend Editor |
Physical and Earth Sciences, Atmospherics |
Jet stream, tornadoes, Fujita Scale |
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Jen Bujdos |
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| data integration, and pie charting |
Life
Science, Social Science, Location
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Eight popular cancer incidences and regional patterns | Reviewed
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Fred Hohn |
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Geo-coding |
GIS Software Skills |
GIS and Mapping |
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Jen Bujdos |
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Hotlink GPS points, photos, text, etc |
GIS Software Skills |
GIS and Mapping |
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Jen Bujdos |
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Data integration, geo-referenced images and world files |
GIS Software Skills |
hurricanes |
Paint Shop Pro or other graphics application |
Mark Schaap |
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TIGER/line data, joining data to existing shapes, source and target tables |
GIS Software skills |
GIS and Mapping |
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Jen Bujdos |
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Fred Hohn |
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Latitude, longitude, projections |
Mapping and GIS concepts, Earth Science |
Equator, prime meridian, Great Circles |
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Jen Bujdos |
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Labeling, graphical digitizing |
Physical and Earth Science |
Identification of Canadian provinces, Great Lakes states, and waterways, etc. |
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Jen Bujdos |
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Graphical digitizing, |
Earth Science |
watersheds |
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Jen Bujdos |
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Query Builder, data integration |
Chemistry |
Excessive levels of pH |
Need RPO data disk for data integration |
Jen Bujdos |
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Fred
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| Charts Editing & View Properties | Biology & Life Science | Evolution of Skull | Mark Scaap | Reviewed
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Getting
data from Internet to ArcView (Exercise 3A)
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Mark Scaap | Scott Allen | Revised Feb. 20, 2002. | ||||||
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| social studies | settlement patterns of major racial and ethnic groups |
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| Physical/Earth Sciences | ArcVoyager | Martin Schmidt | Reviewed by: Ank Meuwissen | ||||||
| Technology/ Engineering | use DEM to make maps |
GIS
software Idrisi
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Fred
Hohn
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| Technology/ Engineering | use DEM to identify watershed and make buffer zone |
GIS
software Idrisi
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Fred
Hohn
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Forest
management
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Basic Idrisi mapping skills | Technology/ Engineering | use DEM to develop forest management plan |
GIS
software Idrisi
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Fred
Hohn
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| Chemistry, environmental science, biology, technology, or social sciences | Chemistry, environmental science, biology, technology, or social sciences |
Web
browser and Internet access
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Beverly
Hunter, Walter Paul,
William Hamilton |
Reviewed
by: Pamela Mcdonald |
LATE GIS Lessons
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Unit 1 Lsn 3 Where is all the Water on the Earth? |
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WorldWatcher |
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Unit 1 Lsn 5 Distribution of Plants and Animals at the Surface of the Earth |
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Unit 1 Lsn 6 Mapping your School Grounds |
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Unit 1 Lsn 11 Patterns in Fertility |
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WorldWatcher |
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Unit 1 Lsn 12 Urbanization |
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WorldWatcher |
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Unit 1 Lsn 14 Suburbanization |
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Arc View |
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Unit 1 Lsn 15 Predicting US Population Growth and Assessing Water and Electrical Energy Resource Risk |
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Project - 3 class periods |
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Unit 2 Lsn 13 Determining an Adequate Location for a Coal Burning Power Plant |
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Four class periods |
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Unit 2 Lsn 16 Human Health Implications: Asthma |
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Unit 2 Lsn 18 Why are we worried about Carbon Dioxide Emissions? |
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WorldWatcher; graphing program |
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Unit 2 Lsn 21 Modeling Earth's Energy Balance |
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WorldWatcher; EnergyBalance Model |
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Unit 2 Lsn 27 Geographic Distribution of Resources |
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WorldWatcher |
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MF Teach Lessons
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| Unit A Lsn 1 Learning Some MFWORKS Basics |
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| Unit A Lsn 2 Laying Out and Printing a Map |
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| Unit B Lsn 1 Identiyfing Features Within the Amite River Drainage Basin |
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| Unit B Lsn 2 Approximating the Area of the Amite River Drainage Basin |
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| Unit B Lsn 3 Conducting a Micro-study of the Amite River Flood plain Area |
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| Unit B Lsn 4 Creating a Flood Stage Forecast Map for Denham Springs |
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| Unit C Lsn 1 Establishing the situation of Three English Towns |
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| Unit C Lsn 2 Determining the Number of Communities Within Zones Around the Three Towns |
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| Unit C Lsn 3 Counting Communities Within 8 and 19 Minutes Driving Time |
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| Unit D Lsn 1 Extracting Features from a Satellite Image Using Drawing Tools |
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| Unit D Lsn 2 Extracting Features from Satellite Images Using Map Operations |
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| Unit 2 Lsn 27 Creating a water Quality Model Using Satellite Data |
Hazmat
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GIS
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Curriculum
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Other
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Content Review by (person & date)
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| Toxic Introduction | |||||||||
| Toxic Lesson 1 | |||||||||
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| Toxic Lesson 3 | |||||||||
| Interactive Mapping with EPA Enviromapper | |||||||||
| Hazmat Professionals |
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