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.

Animals are a big part of our life. Animals fascinate us, whether they live with us as pets or roam wild places on our planet. One exciting way to connect with animals from beyond our back yard is to visit the zoo. Zoological parks, or zoos, are a great way to bring people closer to animals. It is a chance for people to more deeply appreciate and understand how animals live and what they are like.

Zoos have been around for a long time. Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt had one about 3,500 years ago, and the Chinese emperor Wen Wang created a large zoo named the Garden of Intelligence about 3,000 years ago. Many leaders used zoos to show power and wealth. Zoos became popular starting about 500 years ago in the 1500s, when European explorers brought animals from the New World (the Americas) back to Europe.

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Prior experience of GIS is variable, but a number of PGCE students and in-service teachers reported negative prior experiences with geospatial technology. Common complaints include a course focussed on data students found irrelevant, with learning exercises in the form of list-like instructions. The complexity of desktop GIS software is also often mentioned as off-putting.

Want to examine recent changes in landuse or landscape development? The Wayback App is an extremely simple to use, no login required tool to view images from the last ten years. Start by using the searchbar to find a place of interest.

ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is a rich and growing collection of valuable geographic maps and data from organizations around the globe. Access to Living Atlas content is part of your ArcGIS Online organizational subscription. In this course, you will discover and use Living Atlas maps and layers that are ready to use for instruction. You will explore ways to connect Living Atlas content to the subjects that you teach.

Esri UK is providing a digital mapping platform and expertise in biodiversity mapping for the National Education Nature Park. We are providing the Department of Education with ArcGIS Online - an extensible web-based mapping platform to provide staff and students with geospatial tools that will allow them to view, capture, store, analyse and monitor environmental and biodiversity data. We are also providing Professional Services to be delivered using an agile methodology, along with training to key stakeholders.To deploy geospatial tools to all schools, we are using the existing ArcGIS for Schools program.

This is the new quarterly ArcGIS newsletter for Higher Education. It will contain all the important information for teaching and facilitating the use of ArcGIS across your university. We aim to publish newsletters in October, January, April and July. Lets get into it.

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.

After Christopher Columbus found the New World in 1492, Spain and Portugal were eager to conquer and claim new lands. The two world powers decided to divide the world in half by drawing a line that ran through the Atlantic Ocean. Based on this line, Spain could claim new lands in the western half of the world, and Portugal could claim lands in the eastern half.

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In this tutorial, you will be introduced to the basics of the ArcGIS Online Web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) software tool. You will begin by exploring spatial data in the form of map layers that are available on the Web as well as map applications (apps). You will then use the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to search for content, add features to a map, and save and share your completed map with others.

In this section we will the map created previously and to determine an ideal proposed landing site on MarsAdd SketchCreate bufferOverlay

Our lives changed in 2020 and it was clear that data science would help us better understand and react to something we really didn't understand. GIS played it's part

To Digitise in ArcGIS Online you will need to Add Map Notes. Follow the following steps to digitise the area of an agricultural field:

Anyone who has taught GIS using Census Data knows it is an invaluable data set for showing students how to take data stored in a table and join it to boundary data to transform this data into something that can be visualised and analysed spatially. Joins are a core GIS skill and need to be learnt, as not every data set is going to come neatly packaged as a shapefile or feature layer with all the data you need stored within. I don't know how many times I taught students to download data as a table from Nomis, load it into a GIS and then join that table data to the appropriate boundary data so they could produce choropleth maps to do some visual analysis, but it was a lot! Once students had gotten the hang of joins using census data they'd often ask why this data doesn't exist as a prepackaged feature layer with all the data they wanted within it. Well good news, now a lot off it is and it's accessible through the Living Atlas! Don't get me wrong I fully understand the importance of teaching students how to perform joins but once you have this understanding if you can access data that already contains all the information you need then you should be taking advantage of it to save you time. So in this exercise I am going to show you how to load English and Welsh Census Data from the 2021 Census into the ArcGIS Map Viewer from the Living Atlas and produce some choropleth maps to use to perform visual analysis without having to perform a single join.

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Have you ever wanted to create your own maps, or integrate and visualize spatial datasets to examine changes in trends between locations and over time? Follow along with these training tutorials on QGIS, an open source geographic information system (GIS) and learn key concepts, procedures and skills for performing common GIS tasks – such as creating maps, as well as joining, overlaying and visualizing spatial datasets. These tutorials are geared towards new GIS users. We’ll start with foundational concepts, and build towards more advanced topics throughout – demonstrating how with a few relatively easy steps you can get quite a lot out of GIS. You can then extend these skills to datasets of thematic relevance to you in addressing tasks faced in your day-to-day work.

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.

Meteorologists study storms that produce tornadoes. They use tools such as forecasting (predicting the weather), research (observing and trying to understand the weather), and storm chasing (following and watching storms close-up). Some tornadoes and tornado outbreaks may stick even in your memory. Some students grow up to study the science of tornadoes because of a personal experience or out of curiosity about an outbreak. Perhaps you will decide to be a meteorologist yourself one day!

In this GIS activity, you will see how tornadoes are classified into weak, strong, and violent categories. You will also take a close look at some of the memorable tornado outbreaks in history.

Let’s explore Tornado Alley.

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Click here to open the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer and work through the examples shown belowTo add spreadsheet data to ArcGIS Online you need to log in.

Students will compare progress of 5 different sustainable development goals across India and conduct research to understand how this progress compares to New Zealand’s progress on the chosen sustainable development goals. Teacher Materials include examples of answers to questions in the geoinquiry.

Other New Zealand GeoInquiry instructional material freely available at https://arcg.is/1GPDXe

This StoryMap is designed to help you and your students to complete the Child Poverty New Zealand Activity

If you have just completed an Introduction to ArcGIS Online and are starting to think that this GIS stuff if quite useful or interesting, here are some additional applications you might want to have a look at - all explained in as plain english as we can manage!

In this course, you will explore a variety of open-source technologies for working with geosptial data, performing spatial analysis, and undertaking general data science. The first component of the class focuses on the use of QGIS and associated technologies (GDAL, PROJ, GRASS, SAGA, and Orfeo Toolbox). The second component of the class introduces Python and associated open-source libraries and modules (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, GeoPandas, Rasterio, WhiteboxTools, and Scikit-Learn) used by geospatial scientists and data scientists. We also provide an introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL) for performing table and spatial queries. This course is designed for individuals that have a background in GIS, such as working in the ArcGIS environment, but no prior experience using open-source software and/or coding. You will be asked to work through a series of lecture modules and videos broken into several topic areas, as outlined below. Fourteen assignments and the required data have been provided as hands-on opportunites to work with data and the discussed technologies and methods. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us. We hope to continue to update and improve this course. This course was produced by West Virginia View (http://www.wvview.org/) with support from AmericaView (https://americaview.org/). This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Geological Survey under Grant/Cooperative Agreement No. G18AP00077. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of the U.S. Geological Survey. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey. After completing this course you will be able to: apply QGIS to visualize, query, and analyze vector and raster spatial data. use available resources to further expand your knowledge of open-source technologies. describe and use a variety of open data formats. code in Python at an intermediate-level. read, summarize, visualize, and analyze data using open Python libraries. create spatial predictive models using Python and associated libraries. use SQL to perform table and spatial queries at an intermediate-level.