[CALIBK12] Maps, PBS, Knowledge Quest

[debbie@abilock.net]

Download the full article Geospatial Technologies: Real Projects in Real
Classrooms


(678K) reprinted from Knowledge Quest now on the PBS Web site:
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/librarymedia/aasl/index.html

Through a partnership between James Madison University and surrounding
counties in Virginia, high school seniors are being offered the opportunity
to learn more about the 21st century skills of geographic information
systems, global positioning systems, and remote sensing (satellite imagery)
as they engage in meaningful projects that make a real difference in their
local communities and simultaneously earn college credit. For instance, in
Hopewell, Virginia, students used GIS software to recreate, record, and
improve the efficiencies of bus routes, and in Crozet, Virginia, students
worked with the Nature Conservancy to determine how much of the local
watershed had become impermeable. These projects from JMU's Geospatial
Semester Initiative and similar project can truly engage students and help
them transition to either higher education or the workplace. 

 

Knowledge Quest's KQWeb themed issue The Why of Where is also online:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/kqweb/kqweb.cfm 

 

 

Debbie Abilock, Editor-in-Chief

Knowledge Quest

http://www.ala.org/aasl/kqweb

kq at abilock.net

Knowledge Quest is devoted to offering substantive information to assist
building-level library media specialists, supervisors, library educators,
and other decision makers concerned with the development of school library
media programs and services.  Articles address the integration of theory and
practice in school librarianship and new developments in education, learning
theory, and relevant disciplines.

 

 

 

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