Attend this session to find out how teachers are using GIS to engage students in hands-on learning.Engaging Secondary Students with Spatial Community Based ProjectsCory Munro, Saugeen District Secondary School, Bluewater District School BoardStudents become engaged when they collect and analyze data for projects that produce meaningful results. This session will briefly highlight the work of several student and class projects at the local and international level. Forming community partnerships in recent years has provided excellent opportunities for students to build their spatial analysis skills using ArcMap, ArcGIS Online, Survey123, Story Maps, and Collector for ArcGIS. Projects to be highlighted include mapping safe routes to school based on local infrastructure and student surveys, tracking school graduates and their post-secondary destinations, fire safety in Saugeen Shores, and more.

Thinking Spatially Using GIS

Thinking Spatially Using GIS is a 1:1 set of instructional materials for students that use ArcGIS Online to teach basic geography concepts found in upper elementary school and above.
Each module has both a teacher and student file.

The zoo in your community is so popular and successful that it has decided to expand. After careful research, zookeepers have decided to add an exotic animal to the zoo population. They are holding a contest for visitors to guess what the new animal will be. You will use skills you have learned in classification and analysis to find what part of the world the new animal is from and then identify it.

To help you get started, the zoo has provided a list of possible animals. A list of clues will help you choose the correct answers. You will combine information you have in multiple layers of maps to find your answer.

The Thinking Spatially Using GIS home is at: http://esriurl.com/TSG

All Esri GeoInquiries can be found at: http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries

Learn how to use Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online to delete students and the content (including WebMaps and WebApps). You should be thinking about removing student and content on your schools subscription at least once a year.You should be thinking about removing students and content on your subscription at least once a year.To setup Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online on your schools account refer to https://arcg.is/0z4H4rUpdated December 2022.

MapMaker is an online GIS tool, developed by National Geographic in partnership with Esri, is easy to use and provides your students with interactive data on a variety of important topics. Explore the world in both two-dimensional (2D "flat map") and three-dimensional (3D "globe") displays with an intuitive interface. Designed for teachers, no login is required and lesson resources are available to help you get started.Skills builder activities

Thinking Spatially Using GIS

Thinking Spatially Using GIS is a 1:1 set of instructional materials for students that use ArcGIS Online to teach basic geography concepts found in upper elementary school and above.
Each module has both a teacher and student file.

Ferdinand Magellan was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean by crossing the Atlantic Ocean when his expedition sailed through an opening, or strait, near the tip of South America in 1520. He named the ocean Mar Pacifico, which means peaceful sea. The strait, which connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was later named for him.

At that point in his journey, Magellan and his fleet had been at sea for more than a year. He had lost two of his five ships. Now he would cross the Pacific Ocean with three ships, looking for the coast of Asia and the Spice Islands. However, he had no idea the Pacific Ocean would be so big!

The Thinking Spatially Using GIS home is at: http://esriurl.com/TSG

All Esri GeoInquiries can be found at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries

September 2020The Schools 2019 layer is an annual update of public and private K-12 schools in the SACOG region. Public school data, including employment and enrollment, is compiled from the California Department of Education (CDE) and from local school districts. Private school data is compiled from CDE, from the Diocese of Sacramento, and private school websites. Schools with fewer than 6 students are not required to report data so those whose enrollment fluctuates annually around the 6-student mark will have incomplete data across years. Likewise, some larger schools have not been found in every report and may not appear in some years. Effort has been made to maintain in the list those school campuses that have been closed as they are important in the historical context of the data, but also retain the possibility of re-opening as another school, often charter or private. In the case of a new school opening on the campus of a closed school, a new point is now added to show the new school. In the early years of the dataset, the name was simply changed and the old name was only noted in the "Notes" field.Next update: September 2021

To help with the your management of students and content in your schools ArcGIS Online account you can activate Admin Tools for ArcGIS on your account. This video steps you through how to activate Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online on your account.Recorded March 2018.

If you have ever had an error message pop up in ArcGIS Online that mentions you have exceeded the user types in your account, watch this video to see how to resolve this issue.This video takes you through the steps of how to do change students and teachers user types on the rare occasion that you are required to change user types in your schools ArcGIS Online account.ArcGIS Online Administration.Video recorded - April 2020.

The Kid Zone Enrichment Program provides a safe and enriching place for students to be in out-of-school time. This dataset provides the percentage of students who are currently enrolled in after school community programs. Data are broken down by school, including school and Kid Zone enrollment.This page provides data for the Kid Zone Participation performance measure. These data are the source of the summary values for Performance Measure 1.18The performance measure dashboard is available at 1.18 Kid Zone ParticipationAdditional InformationSource: SQL ServerContact: Jeremy KingContact E-Mail: jeremy_king@tempe.govData Source Type: SQL ServerPreparation Method: Extracted to Excel and combined with data given by the Tempe and Kyrene School districts (school enrollment, Free and Reduced Lunch Percentages). These data are generated from from SQL counts the participants by site with an enrollment end date greater or equal to the report date.Publish Frequency: AnnuallyPublish Method: ManualData Dictionary

Count of students in each grade (PK-12) enrolled in each Alaska public school. These data are taken from the official October 1 student count. This data set features historical data from the 2012-2013 school year to the present. Source: Alaska Department of Education & Early Development

This data has been visualized in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format and is provided as a service in the DCRA Information Portal by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Community and Regional Affairs (SOA DCCED DCRA), Research and Analysis section. SOA DCCED DCRA Research and Analysis is not the authoritative source for this data. For more information and for questions about this data, see: Alaska Department of Education & Early Development Data Center.

Students will describe forces at work in mountain building.Other New Zealand GeoInquiry instructional material freely available at https://arcg.is/1GPDXe

Maryland has 200+ higher education facilities located throughout the entire State. Maryland boasts a highly educated workforce with 300,000+ graduates from higher education institutions every year. Higher education opportunities range from two year, public and private institutions, four year, public and private institutions and regional education centers. Collectively, Maryland's higher education facilities offer every kind of educational experience, whether for the traditional college students or for students who have already begun a career and are working to learn new skills. Maryland is proud that nearly one-third of its residents 25 and older have a bachelor's degree or higher, ranking in the top 5 amongst all states. Maryland's economic diversity and educational vitality is what makes it one of the best states in the nation in which to live, learn, work and raise a family.

When your students are creating web maps and apps in ArcGIS Online in the classroom you might want to pass comments electronically on this work. You can do this using the comments field for an item in ArcGIS Online. This video takes you through the steps of how to do this.ArcGIS Online Administration.Video Recorded April 2020.

These exercises are designed to introduce students to analyzing real-world datasets with Matlab (4 exercises) and ArcGIS (1 exercise). The activities all require students to watch a video and complete a task before class time, during which they would follow the guide to complete several different tasks. These tasks are specific to learning about Meadowbrook Creek, a first order urban stream in the Syracuse, NY area, but could easily be developed for other places and other types of datasets.

The number of children who have registered for and attend 1st through 5th grade at a Baltimore City Public School as of September 30th. This count only includes students enrolled in public schools. Source: Baltimore City Public School System Years Available: 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2018-2022, 2019-2023

Third grade English Language Arts (ELA) and Math test results for the 2016-2017 school year by congressional districts for the state of Michigan. Data Driven Detroit obtained these datasets from MI School Data, for the State of the Detroit Child tool in July 2017. Test results were originally obtained on a school level and aggregated to congressional districts by Data Driven Detroit. Student data was suppressed when less than five students were tested per school. Click here for metadata (descriptions of the fields).

Free and reduced lunch data for each participating public school in Alaska. This data set includes the number of students receiving free lunches and reduced price lunches, and the percentage of the students enrolled in either of these programs. Students qualify for free and reduced meals under the National School Lunch Program.Where possible the data is mapped at the location of School that is associated with the program - however some data rows represent non-school entities. See source DEED data center https://education.alaska.gov/cnp/nslp for source dataSource: Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, School Nutrition Programs

This data has been visualized in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format and is provided as a service in the DCRA Information Portal by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Community and Regional Affairs (SOA DCCED DCRA), Research and Analysis section. SOA DCCED DCRA Research and Analysis is not the authoritative source for this data. For more information and for questions about this data, see: Alaska Department of Education & Early Development Data Center.

Image Mask is a configurable app template for identifying areas of an image that have changed over time or that meet user-set thresholds for calculated spectral indexes. The template also includes tools for measurement, recording locations, and more.App users can zoom to bookmarked areas of interest (or search for their own), select any of the imagery layers from the associated web map to analyze, use a time slider or dropdown menu to select images, then choose between the Change Detection or Mask tools to produce results.Image Mask users can do the following:Zoom to bookmarked areas of interest (or bookmark their own)Select specific images from a layer to visualize (search by date or another attribute)Use the Change Detection tool to compare two images in a layer (see options, below)Use the Mask tool to highlight areas that meet a user-set threshold for common spectral indexes (NDVI, SAVI, a burn index, and a water index). For example, highlight all the areas in an image with NDVI values above 0.25 to find vegetation.Annotate imagery using editable feature layersPerform image measurement on imagery layers that have mensuration capabilitiesExport an imagery layer to the user's local machine, or as a layer in the user’s ArcGIS accountUse CasesA student investigating urban expansion over time using Esri’s Multispectral Landsat image serviceA farmer using NAIP imagery to examine changes in crop healthAn image analyst recording burn scar extents using satellite imageryAn aid worker identifying regions with extreme drought to focus assistanceChange detection methodsFor each imagery layer, give app users one or more of the following change detection options:Image Brightness (calculates the change in overall brightness)Vegetation Index (NDVI) (requires red and infrared bands)Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) (requires red and infrared bands)Water Index (requires green and short-wave infrared bands)Burn Index (requires infrared and short-wave infrared bands)For each of the indexes, users also have a choice between three modes:Difference Image: calculates increases and decreases for the full extent Difference Mask: users can focus on significant change by setting the minimum increase or decrease to be masked—for example, a user could mask only areas where NDVI increased by at least 0.2Threshold Mask: The user sets a threshold and magnitude for what is masked as change. The app will only identify change that’s above the user-set lower threshold and bigger than the user-set minimum magnitude.Supported DevicesThis application is responsively designed to support use in browsers on desktops, mobile phones, and tablets.Data RequirementsCreating an app with this template requires a web map with at least one imagery layer.Get Started This application can be created in the following ways:Click the Create a Web App button on this pageShare a map and choose to Create a Web AppOn the Content page, click Create - App - From Template Click the Download button to access the source code. Do this if you want to host the app on your own server and optionally customize it to add features or change styling.

This web map features a vector basemap of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data created and hosted by Esri. Esri produced this vector tile basemap in ArcGIS Pro from a live replica of OSM data, hosted by Esri, and rendered using a creative cartographic style emulating a blueprint technical drawing. The vector tiles are updated every few weeks with the latest OSM data. This vector basemap is freely available for any user or developer to build into their web map or web mapping apps.OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Volunteers gather location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information and upload it. The resulting free map can be viewed and downloaded from the OpenStreetMap site: www.OpenStreetMap.org. Esri is a supporter of the OSM project and is excited to make this new vector basemap available available to the OSM, GIS, and Developer communities.

Author: A Lisson, educator, Minnesota Alliance for Geographic EducationGrade/Audience: grade 8Resource type: lessonSubject topic(s): gis, geographic thinkingRegion: united statesStandards: Minnesota Social Studies Standards

Standard 1. People use geographic representations and geospatial technologies to acquire, process and report information within a spatial context.Objectives: Students will be able to:

1. Explain the difference between two types of geospatial technologies - GPS and GIS.
2. Develop basic skills to effectively manipulate and use GPS receivers and ArcGIS software.
3. Explain uses of GPS and GIS.Summary: Students use GPS coordinates to discover geocaches at a local park, and they use ArcGIS to layer maps about the park. Frontenac State park is the example, but any park or area (including school grounds) could be used. Students also investigate careers that use GIS.