Esri Education Manager Joseph Kerski and his colleague Tom Baker recently met with environmental educators at the North American Association for Environmental Education annual conference. Messages there through the Esri exhibit included:
1. Map your nature center, school campus, or university’s facilities with ArcGIS. It can make your center or campus run more efficiently, provide a safer environment, and save energy.
2. Map and analyze your field data with ArcGIS Online. It is easy to do, and your students can map anything from invasive species to litter to tree species to water quality, and more. Use smartphones, GPS, probes, or other methods to gather data and locations of that data for easy input to ArcGIS Online.
3. Analyze local to global environmental phenomena around the world with these same tools. For example, you can compare population density to ecoregions to determine which ecoregions are most at risk from human impact.
4. Dig deeper into further analysis with ArcGIS Online for Organizations and ArcGIS Desktop. For example, you can determine answers to questions such as “how many water wells are within 500 meters of the riparian zone?”
5. Tap into your K-12 statewide license or your university license for Esri technology. Your state’s schools, your school district, or your university may already have a license, just waiting for you to use it!
6. Connect with other educators using geotechnologies, receive training, discover lessons and data, and more, via the Esri GIS in Education Community.
7. Use Story Maps to communicate your environmental story. Esri showed this new Story Map for points of interest in the city of Baltimore for the conference attendees field excursions, for example, cityview.baltimorecity.gov/shortlist/, but others exist here on environmetal themes.
8. Show students how valuable they become as environmental scientists with GIS skills on their toolbelts by investigating some projects that use GIS and by watching some videos.
9. Access STEM Connections to GIS on the Esri Education Community site, including case studies, activities, maps, links to standards, and more.
10. For additional connections between environmental education and GIS, access a Spatial Environmental Education article in Earthzine that Kerski authored, that focuses on Teaching and learning about the environment from a spatial framework.
What can you do to teach and learn about the environment with the above resources?
Original post by Esri Education Manager Joseph Kerski
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