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Remote Sensing and GIS for Educators
Destination Earth
http://www.earth.nasa.gov/flash_top.html
NASA's Destination Earth is a portal for information about NASA Earth Science and teaching Earth Science.
IMAGERS
The IMAGERS (Interactive Multimedia Adventures for Grade School Education Using Remote Sensing) Program is NASA's comprehensive Earth science education resource for the introduction of remote sensing and satellite imagery to children in grades K-8. The IMAGERS Program is comprised of two multimedia web sites: "Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon" and "Adventures of Echo the Bat". The Program's objective is to captivate children at an early age in Earth science through multimedia adventures.
NASA Learning Technologies
The NASA Learning Technologies Project (LTP) is NASA’s educational technology incubator. LTP funds activities and collaborates with endeavors that incorporate NASA content with revolutionary technologies or innovative use of entrenched technologies to enhance education in the areas of math and science.
Earth Systems Connections
Earth Systems Connections (ESC) is an elementary mathematics, science, and technology curriculum designed to provide integrated learning opportunities for primary children that will help them recognize the interconnected nature of the Earth's systems; appreciate the technological tools that scientists use to conduct Earth system science; and recognize the extent to which mathematics, science, and technology are not only connected to each other, but also can serve as tools to help us understand the natural phenomena we experience.
ISS EarthKAM
ISS EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) is a NASA education program which enables students, teachers and the public to learn about Earth from the unique perspective of space. It provides stunning, high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station taken by ISS EarthKAM students using the world wide web to direct a digital camera on select space flights and currently on the International Space Station (ISS).
TeachEarth.com
TeachEarth.com provides resources and programs for teaching and learning about Eath system science. It is a product of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and sponsored by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.
NASA Earth Science Educator
http://eartheducator.gsfc.nasa.gov/
The Earth Science Educator is the educational portal site of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth-Sun Exploration Division. It contains hundreds of teaching and learning resources available from within the Earth Sciences Directorate and provides teachers and students with quick access to a set of rich and scientifically-oriented educational resources on a wide range of Earth Science research activities.
KanGIS: K12 GIS Community
KanGIS provides all manner of technical and pedagogical support for any teachers and schools interested in using geotechnologies, including GIS, the Global Postioning System, and remotely sensed data.
National GIS/GPS Integration Team
http://www.tnstate.edu/iager/gisgps/main.htm
The National GIS/GPS Integration Team supports social, economic, and environmental improvements in our communities, states, and nation through innovative and creative uses of Geographic Information Systems and Global Positioning Systems.
4-H Technology Programs
http://www.4-h.org/tech/gisgps/
Technology, and the adoption of innovative technologies, has always been a key component of the 4-H Program. The 4-H Technology Program website is a hub for information and opportunities in technology within 4-H.
4-H Youth Favorite Places
http://www.youthfavoriteplaces.org/
The 4-H Youth Favorite Places activity is designed to help teach youth about Geographic Information Systems/Global Positioning System (GIS/GPS) as well as provide a service to their community through "mapping" favorite places. It is a new National 4-H Project that will be implemented in every 4-H club, camp and program.
ESRI: GIS fpr U.S. 4-H Clubs Program
http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/4-h/index.html
This program has been established to support national 4-H efforts aimed at bringing GIS and other geospatial technologies to young people and qualified adults involved with U.S. 4-H clubs and related state and national coordinating organizations.
GIS for K-12 Education
http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/
ESRI provides a repository for resources to develop a GIS curriculum in the K-12 setting. It hopes to promote GIS in the classroom in order to foster critical thinking and problem solving, 21st century workforce skills, and citizenship and community participation among young people and educators, and in addition improve planning and decision making in areas including demographic mapping, student transportation, school safety, and community information access at the school administration level.
Global GIS
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/
Global GIS is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the American Geological Institute (AGI) that focuses on making the USGS Global Geographic Information System database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a DVD-based world atlas.
GIS.com
GIS.com is a portal to GIS information on the Web and was created by ESRI, a GIS software developer. The site is intended to educate anyone interested in geographic technology on the value that technology brings to their day-to-day activities. The site also provides GIS users with resources to help them in their work.
Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
The Federation of Earth Science Information partners brings together government agencies, universities, non-profit organizations, and businesses in an effort to make Earth Science information available to a broader community. The Education Center is a collection of references to the available materials classified according to grade level and classroom subject.
The Orton Family Foundation: Community Mapping
The Community Mapping Program supports youth, educators and community partners in a process of discovery and learning. Together they tackle authentic issues using hands-on resources and technology, including geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS), to actively investigate social, economic and ecological systems, identify and solve local problems and develop enduring connections.
Geocaching
Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for GPS users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a GPS unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.
The Degree Confluence Project
This project’s goal is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, taking pictures at each location. The pictures and stories are then posted on the web site.
New York Geographic Alliance
http://www.buffalostate.edu/orgs/nyga/
The New York Geographic Alliance (NYGA) seeks to promote and improve geographic education from kindergarten through university throughout New York State. Membership in the NYGA is free. The NYGA provides teachers with access to geographic materials, opportunities for professional development and interaction, and a free subscription to News Notes.
GIS Lounge: Resources for K-12 Education
http://gislounge.com/ll/k12education.shtml
GIS Lounge provides a collection of references and tutorials on how to teach GIS to K-12 level students. This site includes free GPS tutorials, lesson plans, and free GIS related resources.
Intergraph Education Programs
http://imgs.intergraph.com/education/
Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions offers robust academic programs for K-12 (primary/secondary) and higher education. These programs have been developed in close collaboration with the academic community and are designed to support the advancement of innovative GIS research and teaching and to ensure the recognition of academic excellence.
Woodrow Wilson National Leadership Foundation
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/esi/1997/02/GISandES.htm
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation provides models of actual school projects using GIS in studying the environment, together with tutorial activities for learning ArcView and GIS.
Berrien County IDS Information
http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bcisd/classres/gis.htm
Berrien County IDS Information offers a list of helpful websites that contain K-12 lessons and ideas, data sources, and GPS/GIS lessons and information.
ESRI: ArcLessons
http://gis.esri.com/industries/education/arclessons/arclessons.cfm
ArcLessons is a resource for you to share lessons for using GIS in the classroom. You can browse a list of lessons by category or use the search tools to find lessons in your area of interest. You also can contribute your Lessons or LessonPaks to ArcLessons for other educators to use.
ESRI: ArcVoyager
http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/education/voyager.html
"ArcVoyager" was created by ESRI's Schools and Libraries team to go along with ArcView. It is a 50-mb package of carefully selected data, ArcView projects, and help files, in a tiered format. The help files are written broadly to a "junior high" level, but ArcVoyager is being used effectively by elementary teachers, middle school students, high schoolers, librarians, college instructors, museum professionals, or parents.
Tucson Youth Mapping and Gleaning Project
http://www.tug.bara.arizona.edu/
Tucson Youth Mapping and Gleaning Project: The project’s goal is the redistribution of local food resources. Students created a digital map of the available food resources in the Tucson urban setting, enabling the organization of a farmer's market-style food exchange.
Tucson Community Technology Education Network
http://ag.arizona.edu/agnet/tcten/
The Tucson Community Technology Education Network (TCTEN) project grew out of the City of Tucson's GIS collaboration project. One of its goals is to foster GIS education to the Tucson community. Parties interested in building educational applications that are spatially based, and teach users how to use the technology, meet regularly and correspond with each other via email.