Browse Resources

This page from the GeoTech Center provides a document on workforce competencies for GIS & remote sensing occupations. The material discusses central job tasks, required knowledge, skills and behaviors and required competencies for careers in this field. The document is available for download in PDF...

Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information System (GIS) instruction. The Investigating Tsunami Damage in...

In this lesson from The Lane Community College MAPS GIS program, students will find cities in the United States that are of similar size to Eugene, OR and compare attributes such as crime rate, land area, etc. using box and whisker plots. Prior to the lesson, the instructor will use a computer and...

In this lesson from MAPS GIS at Lane Community College, students will examine the decision to place all Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast into internment camps during WWII. This lesson is part of a mini-unit on Japanese Internment that will include readings in primary source documents and...

In this 43-page report, Jefferson Community and Technical College aimed to analyze student enrollment and residential data from 2009 along with data from the 2000 Census. According to the report, "the initial task was to graphically represent the residential location for each student who was...

This resource is a Google group page for the organization KanGIS. The group's stated purpose is to "support community for educators interested in using geotechnologies, including GIS, GPS and geocaching, digital globes, orienteering, and remotely sensed data in any educational setting - especially...

On this page from the SAGE 2YC project, Carol Ormand has compiled a number of useful resources on preparing students for their careers by bolstering their knowledge, skills and abilities. The page includes employer and employee perspectives, AGI career webinars, profiles of geoscientists and...

Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instruction. The Classifying and Evaluating Land Cover...

Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information System (GIS) instruction. The Land Surface Heat Emissivity in...

In this lesson module from the Lane Community College ARC GIS program, students use a web-based GIS map of the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the importance of physical and cultural geography during western expansion. Additionally, students will develop skills including identifying the query,...