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 United States population has grown quickly during the past several hundred years. Keeping track of the nation’s population dates to the country’s origins. The U.S. Constitution adopted in 1787 called for a population count every 10 years, starting in 1790. This process, called the census, would keep track of the population, its activities, and its movements. More importantly, the census would ensure that each state received fair and accurate representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The 1790 Census recorded almost 4 million people. By comparison, the 2000 Census counted almost 300 million. That’s more than 70 times the number of people that lived in the United States 210 years ago! It is estimated that by 2050 there will be 392 million people living in the United States! The United States now is the third most populated country in the world after China and India.

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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 United States population has grown quickly during the past several hundred years. Keeping track of the nation’s population dates to the country’s origins. The U.S. Constitution adopted in 1787 called for a population count every 10 years, starting in 1790. This process, called the census, would keep track of the population, its activities, and its movements. More importantly, the census would ensure that each state received fair and accurate representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The 1790 Census recorded almost 4 million people. By comparison, the 2000 Census counted almost 300 million. That’s more than 70 times the number of people that lived in the United States 210 years ago! It is estimated that by 2050 there will be 392 million people living in the United States! The United States now is the third most populated country in the world after China and India.

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

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

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.

Before Europeans came to America, Native Americans had been living on the land for thousands of years.

Starting in the early 1600s, many people from Europe started coming to America to settle the same lands where millions of Native Americans had lived, hunted, fished, farmed, and traveled. The first European settlements were along the Atlantic Coast.

In the first 150 years after Europeans started coming to America (until about 1765), European settlement spread from the Atlantic Coast to the Appalachian Mountains. In the next one hundred years, settlement advanced all the way to the Pacific Ocean. As European settlements spread westward, Native American tribes were killed or driven off their lands and forced to move westward onto reservations.

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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

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

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.

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

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

Thinking Spatially Using GISThinking 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.The Thinking Spatially Using GIS home is at: http://esriurl.com/TSG All Esri GeoInquiries can be found at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries