Teaching with GISGIS helps students and educators engage in studies that promote critical thinking, integrated learning, and multiple intelligences, at any grade level. Through the use of GIS, learners of all ages can apply the important concept of spatial awareness to discover relationships and patterns in their world and have a deeper understanding of the world around them.Educators can use GIS as a teaching aid to help students explore their world, and to encourage students to be more involved through the interactive nature of the technology. GIS can be incorporated in different teaching areas, not just geography. In classrooms across the country and around the world, educators are using GIS in the study of topics as varied as geography, social studies, science, environmental studies, history, and economics.
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