2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 Community GIS: University Collaboration and Outreach With K-12 Teachers Track: Education Author(s): Edwin Joseph GIS is rapidly emerging as an essential tool for students to study local and global communities. With geography now included as a core subject in schools, training teachers to learn and apply geographic information systems techniques in their classroom will not only pave the way for a more environmentally conscious student population, but will provide their students with an improved geospatial sense of the world. In short, integrating GIS into the school curriculum answers the call for including critical thinking, integrated learning, and multiple intelligences in curriculum design. This paper describes how through training workshops and sharing of resources, schoolteachers from four elementary and middle schools partnered with Grand Valley State University to improve their curriculum by integrating GIS into their curriculum, and provides a framework for sustainability. Edwin Joseph Grand Valley State University Geography & Planning 1 Campus Drive Allendale , MI 49401 US Phone: 616-331-2990 Fax: 616-331-2328 E-mail: josephe@gvsu.edu |
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