1. Final Projects
Week 8

2. Today’s Work Talk about Final Project
Check WWU Timetable for time of final
All must participate in final presentations and as a courtesy to your fellow classmates kindly remain through the end
Also treat this like a final (ie. tell your boss if you have job that you won’t be coming in during this time)

3. Past Final Projects Building a Geologic Map
Mercury Pollution in Bellingham Bay
Trail Construction/Location in Parks
Driving Map from Place to Place
Archaeological Site Map
Illustrate the route and extent of my attempted climb of Mt. Baker
Find best site for residential construction
Look for Salmon Habitat and Culverts
Make a Historical Study
Create a Better Understanding of the Middle East
Cross Country Courses for a meet
Lewis and Clark
Locating habitat like duck nesting sites
Create Maps for a Study Plan in K-12
Le Tour de Whatcom (Bike Race)
Frisbee Golf Course
Study Population Patterns
Analyze Aerial Photographs
Document an Archeological Site
Create a Classroom Assignment
Field Study of Invasive Species
Illustrate Historical Events
Analyze Election Results
Analyze Socio-Economic Data across space
Layout a Mass Transit Network
Impacts of Clearcutting
Huck Finn’s Mississippi
Ranges of Bat Species
Before and after study for Elwah Dam removal

4. ESRI Web Site for Social Studies
The url below takes you to a web site where social studies teachers have posted exercises. Each has some very interesting data

5. GIS Definition & Key Elements
Website of uses of GIS in Transportation Planning
GIS Definition & Key Elements

6. GIS Definition & Key Elements
Website of uses of GIS in K-12 Education
GIS Definition & Key Elements

7. GIS Definition & Key Elements
Website of uses of GIS in National Park Management
GIS Definition & Key Elements

8. Local Data Sets City of Bellingham
Bellingham GIS data: 
Washington State DOT GIS data: And finally, here is the link to the old historical maps in both GIS and Google Earth:

9. General Outline on Final Projects
Your Project Title
GOAL
what are you planning on accomplishing
define the project

10. General Outline on Final Projects
DATA
Data acquiring -- what do you need, where can you get it
Data preprocessing -- how do you need to change/adjust it to make it useful
Database management -- how do you need to store it, update it, add to it...

11. General Outline on Final Projects
ANALYSIS AND MANIPULATION
How will you extract answers
Tool and model implementation
PRODUCT GENERATION
What maps, charts, diagrams, tables... do you need

12. Discussion and Critique
Discuss what your final products show
Critique your work and talk about further work

13. General Outline on Final Projects
FINAL REPORT WRITE-UP
Brief overview of all the above steps
Discussion of results -- what you know and how you know it
Critique -- what could be improved or done better
Future directions -- where does this lead you next
Realize that although this appears in a linear fashion it is actually an iterative and recursive process.  You may have to jump backwards and forwards between steps as the work proceeds.

14. PowerPoint for Final Presentation
Organized in same way as reports
Use Bullet points instead of prose
Include all maps within the Powerpoint

15. General Outline on Research Projects
Your Project
GOAL
what are you planning on accomplishing
define the project
DATA
Data acquiring -- what do you need, where can you get it
Data preprocessing -- how do you need to change/adjust it to make it useful
Database management -- how do you need to store it, update it, add to it...
ANALYSIS AND MANIPULATION
How will you extract answers
Tool and model implementation
PRODUCT GENERATION
What maps, charts, diagrams, tables... do you need
DISCUSSION
What did you learn
What could you improve, what might you do next time
FINAL REPORT
Brief overview of all the above steps
Discussion of results -- what you know and how you know it
Critique -- what could be improved or done better
Future directions -- where does this lead you next
Realize that although this appears in a linear fashion it is actually an iterative and recursive process.  You may have to jump backwards and forwards between steps as the work proceeds.

16. Tools Electronic Atlas Thematic Mappers GIS Map Making Digitizing
Use of Air Photos
Use of Projections
Simple Analysis
GPS
Etc…