Abstract
Gearing Up for GIS in Middle School Science
Track: Teaching with GIS in Schools
Author(s): Linda Peterson
Fairfax County Public Schools is using a systemic approach to infuse the use of GIS into middle school science classrooms. This session will focus on how we have integrated this technology into our existing standards-based curriculum. Keys to our success include building interest and confidence through frequent communications to teachers, training to build background knowledge and skills, creating and modeling well-developed inquiry-based lessons, implementing a technology plan to support the installation of ArcView and timely acquisition of data layers. Our experience has shown that the use of this tool is very compatible with a standards-based curriculum model. Its use has captured the attention and interest of students and teachers alike as they explore the many meaningful applications of this technology to their world.
Linda Peterson
Fairfax County Public Schools
3705 Crest Drive
Annandale , Virginia 22043
United States
Phone: 703-846-8643
Fax: 703-846-8646
E-mail: Linda.Chin@fcps.edu