GIS Projects

More about these GIS projects click on the links below.
More about MyWorld GIS. from Northwestern University
More about 8th grade Science at PCDS.
Sample 8th grade student reports that utilize GIS. 2005 projects, 2006 projects, 2007 projects

Kelp Forest Learning Activities
Global kelp Location
Overview description: This lesson examines the key oceanographic factors that contribute to the global distribution of the kelp forest.	My World Project Files student version with all selections completed can be used as a "key"
	Printed Documents teacher materials, answer sheet with answers student handout instructions, answer sheet
Where Do the Fish Live?
Overview description: This lesson uses a combination of student generated and scientist generated data sets to look at fish species distribution and habitat in the Channel Islands.	My World Project Files student version
	Printed Documents teacher background materials student handouts
El Niño and the Kelp Forest.		Channel islands data and data library
Overview description: This lesson examines the El Niño phenomenon and its impact on the kelp forest of Catalina Island, the southernmost of the Channel Islands.	My World Project Files student version
	Printed Documents teacher background materials student handouts
Invisible Boundaries: Created by CIPE
Overview description: This lesson has students examiine the distribution of sea surface tepaerature across the Channel Islands region. By careful examination of the distribution of key fish species the students find the "invisible" boundary, temperature.	My World Project Files student version
	Printed Documents teacher background materials student instructions

Climate Change Learning Activities
Greenland Melting
Overview description: Students examine the Greenland Melting extents by year from 1992 to 2003. This data combined with glacial velocity data points to the impact of Global warming on the Greenland Ice Sheet.	My World Project Files Greenland
	Printed Documents teacher background pages student handouts and instructions
North Atlantic Salinity
Overview description: The focus of this lesson is to have students understand what contributes to the dense water formation sites in the North Atlantic. These sites have shown notable change in the years 1950 - 2003. This lesson draws students attention to the change in the salinity in the North Atlantic and the potential impact on climate.	My World Project Files North Atlantic
	Printed Documents teacher background pages student handouts and instructions
Climate Change Impacts on the North Atlantic
Overview description: This is the third lesson in the series. The lesson combines the changes in the Salinity and the great conveyor belt currents and has students predict and examine the impacts of the North Atlantic freshening on the climate of Europe.	My World Project Files Impacts
	Printed Documents teacher background pages student handouts and instructions

Other projects using GIS technology

Glacier National Park - Melting Mountains

These are zipped folders of data. To use them first download them and then unzip them. The data are ready for use in My World. Put the folder in the My World data folder. Launch My World. It will automatically index the files. These folders contain data library files so you will now see a data library for each of these data sets. You can build your own projects from this data. Please do not use these data sets for commercial uses, and send me any feedback about the lessons so that I can keep improving them, thanks.