USING ONLNE MAPS TO AGGREGATE GOOD TEACHING RESOURCES

ROGER PALMER

BISHOP DUNNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL DEPT CHAIR

ROGER@GISETC.COM

Leveraging Online Maps to Teach Next Generation

Standards in Earth Science

The Next Generation Standards:

guide student knowledge toward a scientific and coherent view of the natural sciences

focus on a limited number of core ideas… to avoid shallow coverage and allow teachers and students to explore each idea in greater depth.

encourage learning science and engineering via integration of content knowledge to scientific inquiry and engineering design.

Online Maps Accessible to Any Browser

ArcGIS.com/homeMap button opens a great search tool and map

view

Online Maps Access Authoritative Data

Think iTunes for spatial data but for free (public accounts)This online system has encouraged many governmentagencies to publish their data in this one location.

Add and Visualize Your Own Data

Or Data From The Web :budburst.org/data

Project BudBurst. 2013. Project BudBurst: An online database of plant phenological observations. Project BudBurst, Boulder, Colorado. Available: http://www.budburst.org; Community Attribution: http://budburst.org/attribution.php; Accessed: April 14, 2013.

Online Maps Leverage Online Content

Can Be Embedded meridian.aag.org/changingplanet

Placed into Skins and TemplatesStorymaps.esri.com

Or Served in Curriculum Packagesedcommunity.com/Resources/ArcLessons/OWGE

Click to Open the Student Material

We Will Continue to Pull Together Teaching Templates for the Best Resources

Thanks for Your Time With Students

Questions, comments, or demo’s?

Links Mentioned: Arcgis.com/home Meridian.aag.org/changingplanet Edcommunity.esri.com/resources/arclessons/owge Gisetc.com/home/map-portals/

Stay in touch!Roger Palmer - Roger@gisetc.com