Brouchures

• GIS in K-12 Education [PDF-1.45 MB, 8 pages]
  -a quick introduction to the ArcView for schools bundle, plus other options.
  
  
• GIS Solutions for Libraries [PDF-7.8 MB, 6 pages]
  -a full-color, quick introduction to the range of software and uses in libraries.
  
  
• GIS Solutions for Museums [PDF-1.3 MB, 8 pages]
  -a full-color, quick introduction to the software that makes sense for use in museums and science centers.
  

Introductory Materials and White Papers

• Exploring Common Ground: The Educational Promise of GIS [PDF-26 KB, 4 pages]
   -a of the potential benefits of bringing GIS into the pre-college classroom, and the educational characteristics that effective use of GIS relies on.
  
  
• Geographic Inquiry: Thinking Geographically [PDF-700 KB, 4 pages]
  -an introduction to an investigative method for engaging in geographic research: Asking geographic questions, acquiring geographic resources, explore geographic data, analyzing geographic information, and acting upon geographic knowledge.
  
  
• Geohistorical Inquiry: Connecting Place and Time and Critical Thinking [PDF-1.7 MB, 13 pages]
  -a perspective on linkages between historical and geographic research, similarities in inquiry methods, the importance of local investigations, and a technique for engaging in geohistorical studies.
  
  
• GIS Approach to Digital Spatial Libraries [PDF-500 KB, 45 pages]
  -a primer on the potential for managing storehouses of spatial data in a library. It includes initial explorations of the Alexandria Project, based in the Map and Imagery Laboratory at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
  
  
• GIS in K-12 Education, rev.2 [PDF-0.2 MB, 40 pages]
  -a primer (first published spring 1995, revised spring 1998) on the basic aspects of using GIS in schools. It includes suggestions on hardware, activities, contacts, and classroom strategies.
  
  
• GIS in School Curricula [PDF-22 KB, 4 pages]
  -a summary of ways in which GIS might be incorporated into thinking about school curricula. Significant attention to educational vision here.
  
  
• Techniques for Using GIS in the Classroom [PDF-22 KB, 4 pages]
  -a summary of ways in which GIS might be incorporated in different classroom settings. Includes attention to alternatives not commonly considered.
  

Lesson Materials

• Explore Your World [PDF-1.0 MB, 50 pages]
  -a set of six lessons, in black and white, designed for grades 5-12, with no computer required. The lessons introduce the ideas of spatial thinking and geographic problem solving, looking at where people live in the USA. The lessons work in conjunction with the Explore Your World with a GIS poster.
  
  
• Explore Your World with a GIS [PDF-387 KB, 1 page]
  -poster, with full-color maps.
  
  
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Other Documents

• GEOTECHing: Mapping and Other Cool Tools for the Classroom [PDF-0.4 MB, 4 pages]
  -a listing of tools (software and electronic devices) to consider adding to a GIS user's technology tool belt. It also gives descriptions and info on where to find out more.
  
  
• Intro to Making Maps [PDF-0.2 MB, 10 pages]
  -a primer on some of the basic issues of cartographic design.
  
  
• Creating Data for Use in ArcView [PDF-38 KB, 7 pages]
  -a primer describing the basic issues and answers behind creating data to import into ArcView projects.
  
  
• Creating Subsets of Elevation Data [PDF-25 KB, 5 pages]
  -a primer on the process of using ArcView 3 for Windows and the Spatial Analyst extension to construct small subsets of existing elevation data. The Spatial Analyst CD comes with wonderful data, but it can be too much. This document walks through cutting out just the Texas data from the North American elevation data, then reclassifying it, and creating a set of elevation shapes which can be ported over to other projects or even computers that do not have Spatial Analyst.
  

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