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Folks:
Joseph Kerski here in Colorado USA at the US Geological Survey National Mapping
Program, Educational Outreach Geographer. I wanted to point out that the USGS has a
great many resources for GIS Education, that can be grouped under :
(1) print materials for GIS training and geography / science teaching;
(2) analog maps and data;
(3) digital maps and data.
Why use USGS resources in education? First, they're either inexpensive or free.
Second, much of the data covers the whole USA, and we do have a limited set of
resources for other countries. Third, the data is created accordiing to national map
accuracy standards.
Under (1) above, we have some general interest publications that are particularly
useful. These include teachers packets on global change, maps, and land use studies, a
GIS poster, a map projections poster, an aerial photo/satellite image use booklet, a
USGS map description booklet, a UTM fact sheet, fact sheets on the digital data
resources, and more. Under (2) above, we have over 75,000 map titles, including
topographic, oil, coal, hydrologic, flood, earthquake, land use, landslide,
ecoregions, satellite image, and other maps. We also have aerial photographs, past and
present, for all areas, as well as historical prints of USGS maps. Under (3) above,
you can obtain digital land use data, digital raster graphics (scanned topo maps),
digital elevation models (3D representations of the earth's surface), digital line
graphs (vector files of roads, rivers, boundaries, contours, etc), and digital
orthophotoquads (rectified aerial photographs).
My WWW site at http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/public/outreach/ contains some GIS-based
lessons, tools, and other educational activities. It also has a few articles I've
written about GIS implementation at high schools. I have more lessons posted at the
Boulder High School site at
http://bvsd.k12.co.us/schools/BHS/departments/socialstudies. I have some Idrisi-based
lessons that I've been using at the college level but which could be adapted for
Secondary School.
Call 1 888 ASK USGS to order materials or visit http://www.usgs.gov. Browse USGS
digital data at http://mapping.usgs.gov, and at http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis (the
Global Land Information System).
Joseph
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/\ Joseph J. Kerski Geographer - Outreach
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