IN GeoSpatial Education: Middle & High School Tutorials, Lessons, Inter-Actives, and MORE Indiana Geographic Information Council Annual Conference May 13, 2015 Larry Biehl, Coordinator, IndianaView and ITaP @ Purdue University Kathy Kozenski, Executive Director, GENI @ IUPUI

IN GeoSpatial Education: Connecting INView, IGIC, GENI & YOU Indiana Social Studies Academic Standards K-12, GHW, APHG geospatial technologies first appeared in 1998: GPS and GIS currently embedded under concepts as “text” – state and national Professional Development IGIC GIS statewide connections … people & INMap Thanks to IU, IGS, IN Spatial Data Portal, GIO… THANKS to YOU and your colleagues and predecessors collaborations with GENI: conferences, professional development, assist with lesson plan/curriculum development, field work… professionals interact with educators and students National Board on Geographic Names – lesson plan GISP recognition via education outreach activities IN GeoSpatial Technologies Policy & Education Timeline – foundation, shared planning & resources Giant County Maps & Timelines – IN Bicentennial Institute --- YOU are invited to participate INView 2 high school student tutorials: lesson plans, PDF, inter-actives, glossary 1 middle school student tutorial Landsat collection for IN counties MultiSpec “simplified” IN State Library IN State Data Center IGIC Education Committee – Webinars, Board, and more IN/ESRI Statewide Site License for K-12 Instructional Purposes

INView/GENI Collaborative Efforts Response to opportunity provided by IndianaView (USGS/AmericaView) Need identified by IndianaView Consortium: education/outreach materials that use/highlight state geospatial data initiatives geospatial curriculum materials for (IN) K-12 educators & students Determined to address students in high school (1st phase) and middle school (2nd phase) (Indiana) Geography & History of the World and Advanced Placement Human Geography (high school courses) Focus on natural hazards for middle school Create common nomenclature for educators & students (glossary) Presented the Project idea at 2012 GIS Conference High School themes obtained from you and your colleagues; preparing students for decision-making from a spatial perspective with latest technologies: Land Use Change, Water Blog site: http://geni.iupui.edu Tutorials, lesson plans, inter-actives, glossary Inter-actives have built-in assessment tools IN Landsat county imagery/datasets collection New … MultiSpec “simplified”

High School Adobe Captivate Inter-Actives PDF Tutorials Word Lesson Plans Orienteering GPS Latitude & Longitude Aerial Photography Satellite Imagery/Landsat Light Spectrum Remote Sensing INMap INView IGIC ESRI & other LiDAR MultiSpec . GIS Employment possibilities Additional Resources Using Land Use Change & Water as themes

Middle School Adobe Captive Inter-Active PDF Tutorial Word Lesson Plan Orienteering GPS Latitude & Longitude Aerial Photography Satellite Imagery/Landsat Light Spectrum Remote Sensing INMap INView IGIC ESRI & other LiDAR LOTS of Literature Connections . GIS Employment possibilities Additional Resources Using Natural Hazards as the theme

...IndianaView in the Tutorials …IndianaMap in the Tutorials … LiDAR in the Tutorials …Land Use Change in the Tutorials …Technology Changes in the Tutorials: 1984 top & 2013 bottom Southern Hamilton County November, 2009 Landsat 5 and April, 2013 Landsat 8

…LOTS of books in the Tutorials

Includes Student Worksheets Includes Assessment Tools Includes Resource Suggestions Introduces Employment Possibilities Connects to Academic Standards

Ongoing Activities Creating MORE Landsat datasets that can be readily accessed/utilized by educators and students; historic datasets to highlight change over time >>> web-based Data collection mechanisms for improvement of tutorials and lessons by educators and students Create short videos: all of us IN GeoSpatial Jobs >>> connect to an IGIC GeoSpatial StoryMap About Geography… Connect to the IN GeoSpatial Technologies Policy Timeline Create more local GeoSpatial Technologies Policy Timelines: Kankakee, Lake Michigan, and many others IN/ESRI Statewide K-12 Site License still available Regional Geography Groups for advocates of Geographic Literacy Giant County Maps >>> need YOU to be successful Other ideas you have ???

If you have ideas or want to get involved with K-12 geospatial technologies education and geographic literacy, contact Larry or Kathy biehl@purdue.edu geni@iupui.edu THANK YOU !!! Now, look at Inter-Active