IN GeoSpatial Education: High School Tutorials, Lessons, Inter-Actives, and MORE 1 May 8, 2014 Indiana GIS Annual Conference Larry Biehl Kathy Kozenski & Middle School

2 IN GeoSpatial Education: Connecting INView, IGIC, & GENI  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 via GENI  IGIC  GIS statewide connections o Thanks to IU, IGS, IN Spatial Data Portal, GIO… o 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  INView  2 high school student tutorials: lesson plans, PDF, inter-actives, glossary  1 middle school student tutorial: to be complete September, 2014  IN GeoSpatial Technologies Policy Timeline  foundation and history  shared resources for future planning  Framework for Connecting GeoSpatial Outreach – Dewayne Purdue  IN/ESRI Statewide Site License for K-12 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 (Indiana)  Geography & History of the World  Advanced Placement Human Geography  Create common nomenclature for educators & students (glossary)  Presented the Project idea at 2012 GIS Conference  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:  Tutorials, lesson plans, inter-actives, glossary, IN Landsat imagery/datasets collection  Inter-actives have built-in assessment tools 3

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5 The PDFs, Lesson Plans, & Inter-Actives introduce…

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…IndianaMap 7

...IndianaView 8

9 …Land Use Change 11/2009 Landsat 5 (left) and 4/2013 Landsat 8 (right) images illustrate land cover change due to construction of new Interstate 69 corridor in southwestern Indiana east of Washington.

(Southern Hamilton County) …Technology Changes via examples of portion of Landsat county images

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Includes Student Worksheets 12 Includes Resource Suggestions Includes Assessment Tools Connects to Academic Standards

 Creating MORE area datasets for specific cities/school corporations that can be readily accessed/utilized by educators and students; historic datasets to highlight change over time  Data collection mechanisms for improvement of tutorial and lesson by educators and students  Collaborating on a GIS for Middle School Students inter-active  Tutorial, lesson plan, inter-active, glossary, MultiSpec simplified  Natural Hazards: tornadoes, floods, droughts, earthquakes, landslides  Connect to more short videos  IN GeoSpatial Jobs StoryMap  About Geography…  Connect to the IN GeoSpatial Technologies Policy Timeline  Local timeline lessons/activities (Kankakee River)  Future development of collaborative ideas and resource sharing  IN/ESRI Statewide K-12 Site License  Regional Geography Groups for advocates of Geographic Literacy Ongoing Activities 13

THANK YOU !!! 14 If you have ideas or want to get involved with K-12 geospatial technologies education and geographic literacy, contact Larry or Kathy Now, look at Inter-Active