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Category Archives: Dear Teachers
Dear Teachers: Part 5 – Exploring Water Use and Quality
In today’s lesson, we are examining water use and water quality. Satellite imagery helps scientists to better understand the changes in the environment. Examine the images below of the Aral Sea; the left image is from April 10, 1986, and the right image is from June 5, 2024. The water loss between the two images
Dear Teachers: Part 4 – Identify Local Natural Hazards to Prevent Powerful Disasters
As we continue moving through the series of lessons of the 2024 Earth Observation Day poster, “Earth Science Everywhere.” Today we will examine the disaster management lesson, “Exploring Disaster Management: Learning about natural hazards to prepare and prevent natural disasters”. This lesson seeks to engage students in learning about natural hazards in the environment. To
Dear Teachers: Part 3 – A Lesson about Forestry
Today we are going to explore the forestry lesson, “Exploring Amazonian Deforestation,” which seeks to engage students in an examination of how human activities modify the natural environment.
Dear Teachers – Part 2: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Ready, set, go! As promised in our previous post we are going to do an overview of the recently published AmericaView lesson plans. The first lesson from the 2024 Earth Observation Day lesson series is, “Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS).” This lesson is intended to be an introductory lesson to help give students a basic
Dear Teachers 2025 – A Review of AV Teaching Resources
Dear Teachers and Readers, Did you know that in 2024 members the AmericaView Education and Outreach Team put together a series of lessons explaining how remote sensing and Earth observation technologies are integral to various sectors within society? These lessons are great! They are geared for middle and high school but can be adapted for
Now is the time to register for a hands-on, engaging, geospatial workshop for K-12 Teachers
Register Now! The ISU GIS Facility will be hosting the 3rd annual geospatial summer workshop for K-12 teachers and pre-service teachers in Ames, Iowa on July 17 – 18, 2024. This workshop will show many geospatial tools and applications from the Esri ecosystem as well as Google Earth, OpenStreetMap, AmericaView, and others. Teachers will get
Approaching Registration Deadline – July 8th
The registration deadline for this summer’s GIS workshop for educators is July 8, 2022. Register today! https://www.wmpenn.edu/k12-teacher-workshop/
Join in the Upcoming Summer GIS Workshop for Educators
Dear Teachers, As the summer approaches, we wanted to encourage you to save the date for an upcoming GIS workshop for K-12 educators being held at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa on July 20-21, 2022. See attached poster for more details. Also please send us an email if you are interested but can’t make
Dear Teachers: A New Year, A New You!
As we begin this new year you may want to challenge yourself with a new skill. Esri has a 6-week program, Learn ArcGIS Educator Program for New Users, available to give you an introduction to many of the core applications available for the classroom. Each week you will spend time watching videos related to the