Abstract
North Dakota EdPARC: Seventeen Years of K-16 Geospatial Education
Track: Teacher Education and Educational Research
Authors: Douglas Munski
The Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium includes the Education Public Access Resource Center (EdPARC) specifically to assist educators and their students in pre-collegiate and collegiate levels of geospatial teaching. These stakeholders come from a wide mixture of backgrounds and places across Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming. Collaborations have been encouraged and brought to fulfillment for activities, curricula, and programs intended to promote STEM-type achievement focused on GPS, GIS, and remote sensing in K-16 settings for 17 years. ND EdPARC is providing experiences at selected sites throughout the state, focused mainly in the Devils Lake Basin and the Red River Valley of the North. Teachers have received training and materials that emphasize GPS as a tool for geospatial study and learning in the middle schools, high schools, and education courses for pre-service teachers as well as workshops for in-service educators. Progress in implementing pre-existing curriculum will be highlighted.