Abstract
High School Students Earn College Credit Completing Geospatial Projects
Track: Teaching with GIS in Schools
Author
A dual-enrollment Geospatial Technology course, in collaboration with James Madison University, has become an adopted Loudoun County Public Schools course after three pilot years. The course is a rigorous year-long Arc-GIS-based offering for high school juniors and seniors. The first semester is dedicated to ArcGIS and GPS skill building activities, followed by realistic guided projects utilizing real data, and requiring students to solve spatial problems and make spatial decisions. The second semester is devoted to independent student-generated geospatial projects, culminating in deliverables presented to Heritage High School and James Madison University faculty. Example student projects will be shared, including a presentation by a second-year student using ArcMap and ArcScene to identify off-grid schools in remote communities that could benefit from micro-hydroelectric systems, on the island of Mindanao, Philippines.
JONATHAN PRUESS
Loudoun County Public Schools
496 ANAMARIA LN
FRONT ROYAL, Virginia 22630
United States
Phone: 540-622-7585
Fax: 540 8371443
E-mail: jpruess@loudoun.k12.va.us
Trent Tillman
Heritage High School
520 Evergreen Mill Rd
Leesburg, Virginia 20175
United States
Phone: 571-252-2800
E-mail: jon.pruess@loudoun.k12.va.us