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Oil Spill Essay Assignment
Have students explore the best course of action for the current oil spill
crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. 1-page document (*.pdf)
THANKSGIVING
From the
blog entry on "To Grandmother's
House We Go"...all the
ArcGIS files (*.zip, 32MB)
you need to explore!
ArcGIS Explorer
layer packages (*.zip, 30MB)
are here and online at
www.arcgis.com
(search all content for "thanksgiving").
Out of Bounds: A Cross-Curricular Baseball Unit is an
overview of activities for four core subjects in middle school
surrounding the theme of baseball. The unit integrates GIS
technology to offer students analytical and creative opportunities.
Unit overview and
links to GIS lessons (*.pdf)
Twain's Travels is a 34 page
lesson pack that includes: introductions, national objectives,
language arts activities for "The Celebrated Jumping Frog" by Mark
Twain, GIS investigations of the Mississippi River and other student
research activities. This activity originated with 7th graders
studying The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and "The Million Pound
Bank Note", but is applicable with any of Twain's works. The
GIS portion of the activity has instructions for use with AEJEE,
ArcView 3.x and ArcView9.
Download Twain's
Travels (*.PDF, 2MB)
Download the GIS
data (*.zip, 40MB)
This lesson along with others is available at the Education
Community at ESRI
http://edcommunity.esri.com
1963- A
Journey from North to South
Inspired
by The Watsons Go to
Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, this lesson explores
the Watson family’s journey from Flint, MI to Birmingham, AL in 1963
as well as several social issues that faced them at this challenging
time in American History.
The 1963 unit
is designed to accommodate a variety of classroom content and
situations.
UPDATED
Want to tryout the latest GIS free tool,
ArcGIS Explorer(AGX)? The 1963 lesson has an AGX version
now...videos are embedded in the map!
Download only the AGX data files (*.zip, 3.9MB)
Get ArcMap version at
ArcLessons or use the new
ArcGIS Online(search for "watsons") to use the data.
Download the ArcMap version
here
or use the
Online Map
Earth, Wind and Fire: Language Arts Collides with Geography
This lesson pack includes the ESRI 2009
presentation and the ArcGIS project and data for connecting students
to the Earth –Holes by
Louis Sachar (middle school), Wind –Their
Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (high school), and
Fire – “Fire on the Mountain” an Ethiopian Folktale (elementary
school). Refer to the
Resources section of the
Lesson Information document for a myriad of information related to
each topic.
Download the
AEJEE version Data and Docs (*.zip, 25.9 MB)
Download the ArcGIS
version Data and Docs(*.zip, 33.4MB)
Online Map
Translating Joined data from ArcMap 9.x to AEJEE
http://gisined.blogspot.com/2008/09/translating-joined-data-files-from.html
How to Export Data (Creating your own shapefiles) in ArcMap 9.x For my friends at the Rural STEM group...here's your requested
item. In the old days we called this "covert to shapefile" but
now it's exporting data. You can easily take large data sets
and make them more meaningful by selecting your smaller data set,
exporting the data and saving it as a new shapefile...in 6 easy
steps.
HOW
TO EXPORT in ArcMap9 (*.pdf)