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This video, from the 2021 Esri Education Summit, provides two presentations on how GIS can serve K-12 educators. In the first presentation, Soumya Chennapragada describes a GIS club at Morning Creek Elementary School. The GIS club's implementation, the Esri kids fair, GIS activities for students,...

This introductory manual, GIS Basics: Working with ArcExplorer 9, was created by the Penn State University Cooperative Extension Geospatial Technology Program and is meant to supplement the education of 4-H students interested in GIS technologies. This manual covers the fundamentals of GIS,...

This page, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, offers links to organizations providing student and educator resources on global climate change. Organizations featured include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA), the...

In this activity, students will "analyze data detailing global energy sources and sinks (uses) and construct a diagram to show the relative scale and the connections between them. Discussions of scale, historical, socio-environmental and geographic variation in this data and implications for future...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, was recorded at the Guitar Build Institute held at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, California in 2018. In the video Alex Moll demonstrates gluing the fret dots onto a fretboard during electric guitar construction. The video runs 2:49...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, was recorded at the Guitar Build Institute held at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, California in 2018. In the video Nancy Chang demonstrates gluing the fretboard onto the neck of the guitar during electric guitar construction. The video...

This 5-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the use of the golden ratio in art. During the activity students will "analyze artwork, watch a lecture/prezi, analyze found images and objects, and watch a video, all on the golden ratio." The learning objectives for...

This site is a free public resource which provides teachers with the tools needed to enhance their instruction using Google Earth, the free program that brings the world to the classroom. Lesson plans include basic how-to guides, student and teacher controlled exercises and more.

Gordon and Mike's ICT Podcast offers perspectives on the information and communication technologies (ICT) industries from Gordon Snyder and Mike Qaissaunee. In this podcast, Gordon offers a presentation on mobile devices and mobile app development intended for a high school student camp. Running...

In this video adapted from Pathways to Technology, you’ll learn how geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) are changing the ways professionals, in many fields, make decisions about their businesses. GPS/GIS technology is used in farming, emergency management,...