Category Archives: Lessons

Lincoln Memorial Garden

A fall hike in Springfield, Illinois’ beautiful Lincoln Memorial Garden inspired a Story Map Tour. Here are the steps I took to create the tour: 1. uploaded geotagged images to my Flickr account 2. changed the location privacy settings to public 3. went to the website storymaps.arcgis.com/ and logged in to my public account 4. […]

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Screen shot, Springfield, IL 1907 from USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer

Story Maps and Resources for History

Four Online Resources for the History Classroom: 1.USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer http://goo.gl/MAuvFZ; 2. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection in ArcGIS Online http://goo.gl/Nk9mpL; 3. Investigating Land Use Change using Historical USGS Maps and Satellite Imagery in ArcGIS Online Blog post by Joseph Kerski, Oct. 30, 2915 http://goo.gl/ADzLXv; 4. Geoinquiries for History Instructional resources for history […]

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Another Great Resource for Teachers!

Learning and Teaching with Geomedia by Inga Gryl, Thomas Jekel, Caroline Juneau-sion, John Lyon, and Eric Sanchez, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing – The new book, Learning and Teaching with Geomedia, provides international examples of teaching with GIS as well as the latest research findings. See more on the GIS Education Community Blog post by […]

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