I am working with a 6th grade teacher at Edgemont Elementary in Sandy. (I wonder if she can see her car in the parking lot in this photo).
We will teach a lesson to her class next week on map symbols. Then we will play a game called Topo Bingo. Ross from UEN gave me about 3 dozen U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps to use in our game. (Thanks, Ross!) It should be a lot of fun for the students, and we hope they learn a lot about maps, layers, and the coordinate system.
In the next few months we will be teaching the student ArcView and developing a GIS project with the help of some Sandy City GIS professionals. We want the students to think about a real world project that will have meaning to them and be relevant to them.
2 comments:
I hope YOU dont find a swastika on these pics. I think they had planted some trees in that shape in the Black Forest back when Hitler was in power and you could see it in the autumn when the colors changed, but of course you had to be flying over it.
Trudie
Take a look at the Google image of U.S. Naval barracks in Coronado, California. The buildings were built in the 1960s but, according to the Navy, their configuration wasn't discovered until the construction project had already broken ground -- which was apparently too late to do the decent thing and modify the designs a bit. But that's beside the point, anyway. Are we to believe that not a single person involved in a construction project for the U.S. Navy ever looked at a set of blueprints? Is it also just a coincidence that the buildings sit at the intersection of Tulagi and Bougainville -- two streets named after famous WWII battles?
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