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.
Category Archives: Earth Observation Day
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
Happy Earth Observation Day 2024!
Earth Observation Day 2024 is finally here as it the release of the AmericaView 2024 Earth Observation Day Poster! The poster is following the theme of this year’s Earth Science Week theme, “Earth Science Everywhere”. The front of the AmericaView 2024 Earth Observation Day poster features 6 image themes: agriculture, disaster, forestry, urban land use,
Come Celebrate ISU Earth Observation Day 2024 with us!
Next week, IowaView and the ISU GIS Facility will be hosting an Earth Observation Day celebration, on Tuesday, October 15, from 10:00 to 11:30 in Durham 206 as part of Earth Science Week 2024. Here’s the schedule: 10:00 – 10:30 Dr. Antonio Arenas, Civil Construction & Environmental Engineering Topic: Google Earth Engine and Open ET (Evapotranspiration)
Join us for Geospatial Career Day – 10/10/2023
In celebration of Earth Science Week (Oct. 8–14), IowaView and the ISU GIS Support and Research Facility will host an Earth Observation Geospatial Career Day from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in 206 Durham Center at Iowa State University. GIS professionals will share short presentations discussing their jobs and career paths. Students can learn more about the geographic information science (GISC) minor and GIS graduate certificate program
Fall Equinox in Northeast Iowa – #Landsat50
Happy Fall! Observe the changes across the landscape in seasonal images in Northeast Iowa. Snow, forest, farmland. Can you notice the areas of coniferous trees versus deciduous trees and where there is seasonal farmland compared to pasture areas? Also notice the changes along the Mississippi and Upper Iowa Rivers. Enjoy the changing seasons! This year
IowaView Staff Make STEAM at Art Educators Fall Conference
Art Educators of Iowa website: http://www.artedia.org/ Archive of 2022 AEI Conference: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O5poy2HMwH1LoF0XTq_mX1E4SKHxuMVDep5ffEG1vZU/edit?tab=t.0
Earth Science Week – Day 3: Earth Observation Day
Happy Earth Observation Day!
Today we are celebrating remote sensing, the study of the earth using secondary observations from instruments such as planes, kites, drones, satellites as an exciting and powerful educational tool to help us show changes over time.
This year the AmericaView/NASA team has put together a fun and beautiful educational poster!
A Great Day For Earth Observation – Part II
The second part of Earth Observation Day was dedicated to using OpenStreetMap to remotely map Wayland, Iowa and Mindanao region of the Philippines. Amy Logan, an IowaView staff member, gave a brief introduction to remote sensing and OpenStreetMap. Then mappers began working on a TeachOSM task – Improving the Iowa OSM Basemap: Wayland, Iowa (https://tasks.teachosm.org/project/981).