Track: K-12 Education and Library Science
GIS in the K-12 Classroom: Staff Development and Instructional Materials for Inquiry-Based Learning
Carla McAuliffeDon Adams , Melanie Magisos
ArcView GIS is a powerful tool that can offer students many opportunities for engaging in critical thinking and inquiry. GIS, by its very nature, has the ability to support educational reform of the kind advocated by leading systemic change researchers (Means, 1994). Because ArcView GIS is a tool, as opposed to a multimedia package, there is a need for instructional materials and professional development to help teachers incorporate this technology into their classrooms. Using its experiences developing instructional materials for a similar visualization tool, NIH Image, CIPE is developing guided discovery lessons and professional development to help students and teachers discover GIS.
Carla McAuliffe
Center for Image Processing in Education (CIPE)
P.O. Box 13750
Tucson, AZ 85732-3750
USA
Telephone: (520) 322-0118
Fax: (520) 327-0175
E-mail: CarlaMcA@aol.com