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Career Awareness:

Geographic Information Systems Career & Education Awareness Websites:

–Career Opportunities

–Learning Modules

–Why is GIS valuable?

PRWeb

Fresno State, Division of Continuing and Global Education

Geography and Sciences:

Starting Point

The Science Spot

My World GIS

Geography, GIS day Activities

Utah Education Network

Health and Physical Education:

Utah Education Network

Pomeroy’s Physical Education Page

Language Arts:

Using GeoSpatial Tools in Teaching Language Arts (GISCafé)

Utah Education Network

Data:

City of Richmond GIS

Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) Data and Products

National Weather Service GIS Data Portal

Virginia Geospatial Extension Program

US Census Bureau Tiger Products

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Geospatial Data Gateway

USFWS, National Wetland Inventory, data by state

USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) Global Visualization Viewer (GLOVIS)

USGS National Map Viewer

USGS Historical Topographic Maps – Preserving the Past

USGS Topo Quadrangles – Maps for America

General:

Why use GIS in the Classroom?

Education World

Teaching with GIS: Introduction to using GIS in the Classroom (ESRI Training)

GIS in the Classroom, a Collaboration of Ideas

GIS for Schools (ESRI)

Remote Sensing:

Band Combinations (MODIS/ASTER/Landsat)

Google Earth Engine—Landsat Annual Timelapse 1894-2012

Esri—Landsat Imagery, Change Matters Viewer

History and Social Studies:

Social explorer

Historical GIS Clearinghouse and Forum

National Historical Geographic Information System

What Historians want from GIS (Article, ArcNews Online)

China Historical GIS

Mathematics:

ESRI GIS Education Community:

–Mathematics

–Analyzing Coordinates Before Mapping Them

–Bridging GIS and Mathematics Education

ESRI, Combining Math, Science, and GIS

GPS Math Modules

Lesson Planet

Real World Math

Printable list:

For a full list of these and other resources, download the pdf here.

GEOTREK-12 is a program of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium.