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This 5-page syllabus provides an overview of the Environment Applications in GIS course taught at the California University of Pennsylvania. "This course is tailored to introduce Environmental Issues to students within a spatial framework, using Geographic Information Science." The syllabus includes...

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 site, created by Venkatesh Merwade of Purdue University, offers tutorials relating to GIS and water resources modeling. Topic areas covered are hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, GIS and hydrologic modeling and downloading geospatial and temporal data for hydrologic/hydraulic modeling. All...

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,...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV focuses on GIS careers. Viewers will learn about the work of GIS technicians and the applications of the data they collect. Running time for the episode is 4:55.

GISCafe is a media-rich website on all things geospatial. It includes the most recent news in the field, a weekly magazine, a blog, and information on the latest technologies, products and resources.

This video is provided GeoTech Center and is part of a series on web mapping. This brief video discusses how to configure Gmail to use with Integromat (now called Make). This platform helps users automate manual processes without needing code. This video runs 00:38 seconds in length. Other videos...

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.

This 4-page resource, published by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), provides an introduction to global position systems (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS) and their usage in fieldwork. Included are two in-class activities: one pertaining to Geo-caching,...

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,...