Track: K-12 Education and Library Science
GIS - A Keystone Technology for Earth Science
Kathryn KeranenGIS is a computer software that offers a multitude of ways to integrate, store, and analyze real-time data. After the data are analyzed they can be viewed using a graphical interface that allows students to look for patterns and trends. Different layers of data can be viewed in relationship to each other using the common denominator of geography between the data layers. Demonstrations will be shown that link point data to ArcView GIS software. Earthquakes, volcanoes, and EPA data will be obtained from the Web, brought into ArcView GIS, and analyzed. In addition to data found on the Web, students can create their own databases and incorporate them in local GIS data sets. This technology is a keystone technology in Fairfax County, Virginia's new geosystems class taught at the junior/senior level. Lessons will be provided with detailed instructions on how to incorporate point data into ArcView GIS.
Kathryn Keranen
FCPS
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Great Falls, VA 22066
USA
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E-mail: kkeranen@thor.tjhsst.edu