USING ONLNE MAPS TO AGGREGATE GOOD TEACHING RESOURCES ROGER PALMER BISHOP DUNNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL DEPT CHAIR Leveraging Online Maps to Teach Next Generation Standards in Earth Science
The Next Generation Standards: guide student knowledge toward a scientific and coherent view of the natural sciences focus on a limited number of core ideas… to avoid shallow coverage and allow teachers and students to explore each idea in greater depth. encourage learning science and engineering via integration of content knowledge to scientific inquiry and engineering design.
Online Maps Accessible to Any Browser ArcGIS.com/home Map button opens a great search tool and map view
Online Maps Access Authoritative Data Think iTunes for spatial data but for free (public accounts) This online system has encouraged many government agencies to publish their data in this one location.
Add and Visualize Your Own Data
Or Data From The Web : budburst.org/data Project BudBurst Project BudBurst: An online database of plant phenological observations. Project BudBurst, Boulder, Colorado. Available: Community Attribution: Accessed: April 14, 2013.
Online Maps Leverage Online Content
Can Be Embedded meridian.aag.org/changingplanet
Placed into Skins and Templates Storymaps.esri.com
Or Served in Curriculum Packages edcommunity.com/Resources/ArcLessons/OWGE
Click to Open the Student Material
We Will Continue to Pull Together Teaching Templates for the Best Resources
Thanks for Your Time With Students Questions, comments, or demo’s? Links Mentioned: Arcgis.com/home Meridian.aag.org/changingplanet Edcommunity.esri.com/resources/arclessons/owge Gisetc.com/home/map-portals/ Stay in touch! Roger Palmer -