Lessons and Worksheets: Mapping

Lessons & Worksheets: Best Locations for a Proposed Golf Resort

Update: Fixed broken QR Code. 9/15/18 6:02am If you’re eager to show your students how GIS is applied to real jobs and the real world, this is a great story […]

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Review: ESRI’s GeoInquiries on NatGeo’s MapMaker 4.0 Platform

If you are a friend of ESRI’s GeoInquiries, this might be for you, as things have changed. If you do not know what they are, they are worth investigating. WHAT […]

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LESSONS & WKSTS: Mental Mapping a Sense of Place

*MENTAL MAPS* *SENSE OF PLACE* *TRAVEL NARRATIVE* *RELATIVE LOCATION* *FLOW LINES* *ACTIVITY SPACE* This enrichment activity aims to have students apply multiple concepts across the course, particularly Unit 1. By […]

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: The Multi-Step Approach to Stimuli Analysis

*UPDATE: February 6th, 2021. New segments in italics. I am a “HuGe” (get it?) fan of our online PLT and the ingenious methods and procedures that help weave in course […]

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LESSON PLAN: Remote Learning Nat’l Geo Puzzle

A couple of years ago I edited the numbers out of the National Geographic map provided by their MapKit website to make a giant floor map puzzle for the first […]

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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: 198 Country Digital One-Pager Templates

Expose your students to 198 countries through independent research using digital case studies. Each digital one-pager is itching for your students to complete. Included on each page are the seven […]

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LESSON PLAN via TpT: Historical U.S. Immigration Maps & Charts for Coloring *6-Way Lesson Plan*

**Geography Coloring Book Series**  **History Coloring Book Series** U.S. Historical Migration Patterns & Processes: Explore the historical immigration patterns of the United States through a series of charts and maps […]

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LESSON & WORKSHEET: Arithmetic, Physiological, Agricultural Densities: Crunching the #’s & Mapping them

Ability to download PDF of this full post is above. (sans worksheets) UPDATED 9/19/19: I deleted the countries of Egypt, South Korea, and Russia and left the United States so […]

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INTERACTIVE via ESRI Geoinquiry: What is a Gerrymander?

Note: The ESRI Geoinqueries that ESRI produce are amazing, the problem is that you can’t edit their PDFs to remove the pre-written answers for students. Here is a formatted version […]

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INTERACTIVE: Make a Digital Choropleth Map

If you are looking for a few ways to have students make a quick digital choropleth map, you might consider the following options: Piktochart (A favorite of mine) Log in […]

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INTERACTIVES: Esri Geoinquiries

As you get more comfortable and efficient with teaching content, you might find more time for enrichment activities. As the company Esri puts it, “Esri’s GIS mapping software is the […]

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Lessons & Worksheets: Map Scale via the U.S. Department of then Interior

Have students read up on map scale with information that comes straight from the professionals. The U.S. Geologic Survey has a write-up about MAP SCALE that is clear and concise. […]

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LESSONS & WORKSHEETS: Climate Migrants via ESRI Storymaps

The ESRI storymap on climate refugees does a phenomenal job sampling locations in the world that experience migration effects as a result of climate change. Though many times, there are […]

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LESSON & VIDEO: The Geospatial Revolution Video and Worksheet

I recently revisited the Geospatial Revolution episodes created by Penn State Public Broadcasting and created a new worksheet for the series. I was reminded how good they are. If you […]

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Lessons and Worksheets: Spacial Distribution: Pattern, Concentration, Density

Teacher’s Notes: This is the lesson that I use for my students to teach them about the concept of spatial distribution and density. I am sure that you can implement a few […]

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