About GIS for Schools

Students and Teachers

Every day, students explore their world through textbooks, newspapers, and television. As they experience their community, they collect data about the world around them.  GIS can help manage this location-based information and provides the tools to display, analyze, manipulate, and query data. With a GIS, students can explore relationships, trends, and conduct analyses that can be represented as maps.

In their schoolwork, students can use GIS to bring value to the community. Working with businesses, agencies, or researchers, students can use GIS to display the complex fabric of our community and our world. GIS allows students to study the world in the past, present, and future at a local, regional, or global level.

GIS is not restricted to geography teachers, this powerful tool can be used to explore other subjects. History teachers can use it to show changes over time in a region and science teachers can enhance local projects with interactive maps. There are so many possibilities for GIS in the classroom.  Learn more.

School Administration

Every school year, school administrators are provided with new information pertaining to the schools within their district. GIS can be used to analyze, query, and visualize this new data and it can help in many areas including answering questions about school enrolment, effectively managing a school district, and monitoring educational policies and programs such as standardized testing. GIS is a tool used to help school administrators make intelligent decisions which results in a better education for the students. Learn more.