2011 Esri Education User Conference Proceedings

The latest shared GIS resources of EdUC forum members are now online. 

Hawaii Clean Energy Hawaii STEM iPad App

Get the Hawaii Clean Energy Hawaii STEM iPad App Now!
In celebration of EARTH DAY and in honor of teachers, students, and parents worldwide, download the Clean Energy Hawaii STEM iPad App from iTunes on April 22nd!

Download iTunes Now: http://bit.ly/CleanEnergyHawaii

Watch it You Tube: http://bit.ly/CleanEnergyHawaiiVideo

Visit our website: http://www.womenintech.com/

Free only for a limited time

FREE ArcGIS 10 Training Seminars!

ESRI provides free online training for ArcGIS Version 10:

Check out:
ArcGIS 10 Deployment: Download, Installation, and Authorization (US) http://training.esri.com/acb2000/showdetl.cfm?DID=6&Product_ID=978

Using ArcMap in 10 http://training.esri.com/acb2000/showdetl.cfm?did=6&Product_id=969

Editing in ArcGIS 10 http://training.esri.com/acb2000/showdetl.cfm?DID=6&Product_ID=975

Remote Sensing Lessons from AmericaView

Engage your students in Remote Sensing

Visit this website to download lessons appropriate for your grade level:
http://earthobservationday.com/pages/resources-eodaylessonplans.htm

These lessons were developed by AmericaView to support celebration of Earth Observation Day.

AmericaView Website:
http://www.americaview.org/
Earth Observation Day Website:
http://www.earthobservationday.com/

What are other ways to integrate remote sensing into K12 classrooms?

FREE online GIS training available through Women In Technology!

Free GIS webcourses are available for all Hawaii teachers and students K-12. This opportunity is made possible through WIT’s partnership with the Hawaii Department of Education and ESRI. For more info go to http://www.womenintech.com/GISDistributionCenter/
Or email Shannon@medb.org.

Do you feel online training is effective?

GIS Curriculum for Middle School Math & Science

This site has curriculum and accompanying data files ready for download!

James Madison University STEM Geospatial Technology
http://www.isat.jmu.edu/stem/curriculum.html

Even better, they provide versions for both AEJEE and the full ArcGIS software.. you choose.

GPS Waypoints to AEJEE

Do you have ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE) installed on your computer? Do you have GPS waypoints that you want to add to an AEJEE map project?

See the attached file for the steps to manually transfer GPS waypoints to AEJEE.

TIP: Don't forget the negative symbol for the Hawaii longitude coordinate... we are West of the Prime Meridian! (-x, y = longitude,latitude)

7_GPStoGIS_AEJEE_handout.pdf

Math and Engineering Related GPS Lessons

TEACH Engineering: Resources for K-12 http://teachengineering.org

This website has some excellent lessons that clearly emphasize mathematical concepts in GPS use. When you get to the home page, use the "Curriculum Search" field in the upper right corner and type in GPS to see what they currently have. Or go directly to the GPS lessons by clicking HERE.

When I last looked, here are just a few of the lessons available:
Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
GPS on the Move
Where is Here?
Where Am I: Navigation and Satellites

Find the Math in GPS Use by Measuring the Earth

With at least two GPSs, students can engage in a fun activity to literally measure the circumference of the Earth!

For two versions of lessons on this, see the attached files.

Measuring the Circumference of the Earth by Joseph Kerski, ESRI K12 Education
This is a fabulous lesson with many extension.


Measuring the Circumference of the Earth by Diana Papini Warren, Women in Technology
This is a simplified version of Joseph's lesson with easy to use tables for the calculations!
MeasureCircumference_Papini.pdfMeasureCircumference_Kerski.pdf