Abstract
Teaching English Language Arts with GIS
Track: Teaching with GIS in Schools
Author
Mark Twain said, 'Experience is an author's most valuable asset.' Exploring the globe is not discipline specific. Like literature, GIS gives us wings to fly to new places and experience worlds beyond our personal borders. Although GIS is not an educational magic wand to cure all children, it does offer very real experiences for a subject that has an ethereal reputation. With GIS activities that cross curricular boundaries of Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts, students see curriculum come full circle and find nuances and relationships between subjects that imprints content material in their minds and shows purpose without them having to ask, 'Why do I need to know this?' Explore the use of GIS in teaching English Language Arts with curricular examples and practical experience for using geospatial technology to enhance reading, writing and thinking instruction.
Barbaree Duke
GIS: Y.E.S.
636 Silverthorne Lane
Covington, Louisiana 70433
United States
Phone: 985-327-3072
E-mail: barbareeduke@gmail.com