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Today, Here Tomorrow -
A Geographic Focus on Conservation
Get the TEACHER'S PACKET online this year! A first for National Geographic!
This year's theme is CONSERVATION. National Geographic has prepared
lesson plans in four strands for elementary, middle, and high school students.
The four strands are: Biodiversity, Fresh Water, Population, and Oceans.
National Geographic has set up an opportunity for teachers and students
to share their experiences using the Conservation theme materials at their
GAW site. This is a first-time experience for National Geographic,
allowing teachers to interact and share experiences.
National Geographic's GAW site - www.nationalgeographic.com/gaw
Additional lesson plans, ideas, resources, and materials are available at National Geographic's Educational Home Site:
Be
sure to check out the FANASTIC search for previous articles in National
Geographic Society publications, the Virtual Solar System Tour, and Family
Xpedition links! Also of GREAT value are the Lesson Plan links.
The page is laid out very well and is simple to naviagate!
Find
your community on Arc data!
* note when you connect to Arc data maps, pull down the window at the bottom of the page to choose your map...
ESRI, one of the co-sponsors of G.I.S. Day provides databases to users on the internet. Visit their site to learn more about geography information systems and GIS day.
There
are other G.I.S. sites available on the worldwide web!
National Geography Where-In
Please let us know of your participation by sending a card to Mary Alice Aguilar, Delaware Geography Alliance, c/o Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 and indicate how many students, faculty, and staff in your school participated!
Or try something different as a family activity...
Lycos offers a fanastic cybersurfari that has been endorsed by many organizations.
National Geographic also offers a COOL BEANS webquest for families to try together. They post a new one every other week.
After you surf the net, send an e-mail message to the Delaware Geography Alliance! We'll send you a certificate of participation!
ESRI sponsors a "Community Atlas" project that allows you and a group of students to create either one of two projects. Students may complete an atlas of their community, creating maps that describe their communities online. Or students may complete a conservation mapping project. ESRI offers prizes to YOU and your school for participating!
What
is the Community Atlas project?
Details
about submitting a Community Atlas project to ESRI...
See
the projects submitted last year by Gunning Bedford,
Smyrna
Middle, and Milford Middle!
Download directions from ESRI!
ESRI also has lessons you can download from their site that use GIS. These are mega-big files and will take forever to download. They come complete with student activity pages and teacher instructions. These are lessons that teachers in the Delaware Geographic Alliance have used in their classrooms successfully:
Returning
Raster - appropriate for grades 2 - 6 (allow 30-45 min for lesson)
Quest
for Gisium - appropriate for grades 2 - 6 (allow 30-45 min for lesson)
Case
of the Missing Ship - appropriate for grades 5 - 8 (allow 30 min for lesson)
HAL
2001 - appropriate for grades 5 - 8 (allow 45 minutes for lesson)
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