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Teaching Science Content and GIS Skills With My World
Track: Teaching with GIS in Schools
Author(s): Aida Awad

Is it possible to successfully integrate teaching highly marketable GIS skills and complex scientific concepts in a high school science classroom? The newly revised PASCO My World GIS activities contain lessons focused on giving students an opportunity to learn GIS skills within a content rich format. In the lessons, students construct knowledge through a series of eleven inquiry activities based on real life applications using real data. The lessons support students as they learn to “see” the relationship between data and the world, increasing their comprehension of complex scientific concepts and understanding of the world they live in. Included are lessons on global climate, ocean floor and coastal features, coral reefs, earthquakes, plate tectonics, glaciers, global resources, greenhouse gases, hurricanes, tornadoes, and weather. This presentation includes an overview of the activities including the learning objectives and a discussion of piloting the activities in an 11th and 12th grade Geology classroom.

Aida Awad
Maine East High School
2601 Dempster
Park Ridge , Illinois 60068
United States
Phone: 847-825-4484
E-mail: aawad@maine207.org