Climate Change - Teach with GIS

The new ESRI UK Education Team resources for teaching about the Climate Emergency have now been released and are ready for use. They explore climate change in the UK, and were produced in partnership with the Met Office.

They include Teaching Resources for different key stages including Primary.

They also include a Teacher Knowledge section.

This includes the useful resource on COP26 below.

A typically stylish and useful set of resources generously shared.

The Human Reach Atlas

This is a collection of ESRI StoryMaps which has been published ahead of World GIS Day.

It's called the Human Reach Atlas.

La Palma Eruption StoryMap Collection

 

Excellent work by Alistair Hamill and others, which has been shared by Jason Sawle and the ESRI team.

Living Atlas

Remember to use the ArcGIS Living Atlas.

Rivers and GIS crowdsourcing project

Time to sign up for the Great British and Irish River Managment GIS Initiative, being organised by Alistair Hamill, Brendan Conway and Andy Funnell.

Get more of a sense of the Great British and Irish River Managment GIS Initiative in this video. These are the citizen scientists across these islands who have signed up so far.

Want to join us? https://t.co/x73nk7dAR7 pic.twitter.com/7XBvpKTrTk

— Alistair Hamill 😷 (@lcgeography) February 20, 2021

As it says on the sign-up page:

The local walk has been the lifeline for so many of us over the past year. The chance to get away from the desk and from the computer screen; the chance to get out and feel the wind against your back and the warmth of the sunlight on your face (or, perhaps, if you live in N. Ireland, yet more rain driving into your face!)

And, perhaps, during your local walks you have come to know your local area a bit more. Perhaps you’ve ventured down pathways or streets you don’t normally walk; perhaps you’ve come to appreciate that little bit more that place we call our community.

Maybe, like me, you’ve spent more time exploring your local river, getting to know all its twists and turns, watching it respond to the changing weather patterns. Perhaps you have come to appreciate it even more too.

If so, then the Great British & Irish River Management GIS Initiative might be just for you.

The idea behind this is to pool the resources of geography teachers and other interested parties in a kind of ‘citizen science’ data capture of river management across these islands. Not in some theoretical way – but in the way it happens on the river beside us, the river we have local knowledge and experience of. River management as it actually happens, warts and all. So we’re interested in the small scale stretch of river beside you; the kilometre or three that you walk along, that you know and love well.

We will use GIS to collect and collate the information. All it will take is for you to collect data with your phone and you will be supported into how to bring this into the wonderful world of GIS. Don’t worry if you haven’t much experience in using GIS so far. The skills you will need for this are very accessible and you will be supported in developing them.

SIGN UP HERE.

Data Classification and Mapping

A new and very helpful StoryMap.

Check it out...

Landsat Explorer from ESRI

New page, which has been added to some existing web apps, featuring the Arctic and Antarctica.
Click here to see the Arctic and Antarctic apps.

Then click here to be taken to the new Landsat Explorer App.

Star Wars filming locations...

Volcano Top Trumps map

Raphael Heath has produced a very useful new map for any of you who use the Volcano Top Trumps packs in your classroom. If you haven't seen the Top Trumps, they can be purchased via the website.

Here's the map, which shows the locations of the volcanoes in the pack.

ArcGIS Earth

Coming soon. 
Go here to read more and sign up to find out more when it launches...

Learn ArcGIS

A brand new site for ESRI ArcGIS products.
Looks great - and has ideas and information for those wanting to develop their GIS skills.

Don't forget to get the ArcGIS Explorer App too if you have a Mac with the latest OS X version....

New maps and data for ArcGIS Online

We have updated our Free Maps and Data Gallery in ArcGIS Online http://t.co/gv8Itjmhke Easy GIS for your classroom pic.twitter.com/NmMnYLSIce
— Jason Sawle (@GIS4Schools) May 23, 2014

Check the maps and galleries here.

Click the LESSON IDEAS tab and provide an e-mail and school name to get access to some guidance documents.
And don't forget the day long dedicated ArcGIS Online course at ESRI's Aylesbury HQ

ArcGIS Online

Thanks to all those who came along to the GA Google Earth and Beyond course at the Leicester Mercure on Thursday this week.
I demonstrated ArcGIS Online along with Google Earth on the GA course. This is available in free and subscription versions for schools. I am going to be sharing more ideas for this over the next year or so.
Just used ArcGIS to map the POLICE.UK crime figures...
Plot an area around your school.
Go to DETAILED STATISTICS and download the CSV file.
Drag into ArcGIS ONLINE to visualise it instantly....

Free ArcGIS Online course

After the Google Earth / Google Maps course I described in the last post, there's now a chance to take part in another course, this time based on ArcGIS Online.

Sign up at COURSERA for the course, which starts in July.
Details here...



The past decade has seen an explosion of new mechanisms for understanding and using location information in widely-accessible technologies. This Geospatial Revolution has resulted in the development of consumer GPS tools, interactive web maps, and location-aware mobile devices. These radical advances are making it possible for people from all walks of life to use, collect, and understand spatial information like never before.
 
This course brings together core concepts in cartography, geographic information systems, and spatial thinking with real-world examples to provide the fundamentals necessary to engage with Geography beyond the surface-level. We will explore what makes spatial information special, how spatial data is created, how spatial analysis is conducted, and how to design maps so that they’re effective at telling the stories we wish to share. To gain experience using this knowledge, we will work with the latest mapping and analysis software to explore geographic problems.