Publisher's Synopsis
Geography is everywhere and so is GIS!
GIS is just the right tool for students to explore, question, integrate, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and act on information. Alibrandi offers stories of teachers and students from the U.S. and Canada who have harnessed the power of GIS to conduct original research. Follow these students as they employ GIS to:
- conduct water quality testing where pollution and reduced flow had impacted local shellfish beds
- develop a profile of their city during the pre- and post-Civil Rights era by interviewing African American adults who had attended their school
- address community needs, including Food Bank distribution routes and site locations for child care facilities?
- solve problems in Canada, from transportation planning for the Olympics to mapping ethnic neighborhoods.
The companion interactive CD-ROM provides the GIS software, plus sample projects and activities for GIS integration, developed by the author and Shannon White, that are closely tied to the text.
Learn a new tool alongside your students. Introduce them to a technology that works equally well in other classes. Integrate their knowledge framework and connect their learning to greater local and global communities.
