AbstractStudents Flourish by Mixing Research with Learning in GIS and Cartography Track: Educational Research and Teacher Education Author(s): Cynthia Brewer, Barbara Buttenfield Involving students in research is a strong enticement to learn complex tools and critical thinking skills. Our undergraduate and graduate students assisted development of ScaleMaster with Esri. ScaleMaster organizes changes in symbol design and choices of features from databases with different resolutions through a continuous range of scales (e.g., 1:5,000 all the way to 1:5,000,000). Grads developed the initial tool for a topographic base map project and edited and generalized data for the geodatabase. Undergraduates examined symbol designs for varied map purposes (such as public safety, tourism, topographic, and election topics) through scale change to enhance this core conceptual tool. Cynthia Brewer Pennsylvania State University Department of Geography, 302 Walker Building University Park , PA 16802-5011 US Phone: (814) 865-5072 E-mail: cbrewer@psu.edu Barbara Buttenfield University of Colorado Campus Box 260 Boulder , CO 80309 US Phone: 303-492-3618 E-mail: babs@colorado.edu |