Abstract
Making Spatial Decisions in Earth and Environmental Science: New Curricula
Track: Teaching with GIS in Schools
Author(s): Kathryn Keranen, Bob Kolvoord
We have developed a new set of activities featuring spatial decision making in Earth and Environmental Science for college and high school students. These activities features GIS as an integrated tool, rather than a burdensome add on. They also focus on key content and concepts in these areas, but taught and reinforced using geospatial data. In this session, we will demo a few activities and describe the overall structure and concept of these two collections. We will also describe the different datasets used and help participants understand how to customize these datasets for their own locations.
Kathryn Keranen
James Madison University
9100 Weant Dr.
Great Falls , Virginia 22066
United States
Phone: 703-759-3460
E-mail: kkeranen@bellatlantic.com
Bob Kolvoord
James Madison University
MSC 4102
Harrisonburg , Virginia 22807
United States
Phone: 540-568-2752
Fax: 540-568-2768
E-mail: kolvoora@jmu.edu