Learning and Leading - September/October 2010

Students can track North Atlantic hurricanes using

ArcGIS from ESRI.

After reading The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, students use GIS technology to analyze the distance, landscape, and monetary costs of such a trip.

com) is a tool that allows students to tell a story about an issue they are investigating. Students can pause the presentation at any time to more deeply investigate the “what if…” questions that their classmates or instructor may have.

The third option combines GIS desktop software with data from the Web. Here, students have access to all desktop GIS tools without having to store large amounts of data locally. For example, students could use the rivers and invasive species data from Na-tional Atlas (http://nationalatlas. gov) to study the spread of zebra mussels throughout the nation’s waterways. This option includes Google Earth and ArcGIS Explorer, 3D geographic visualization applications that stream data from the Internet. Using ArcGIS Explorer ( www.esri.com/arcgisexplor-er), students can analyze their classmates’ addresses and speculate about the spatial distribution of their class

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