K-12 and Higher Education Environmental Education GIS Short Courses

I am teaching several upcoming short courses with community and environmental themes, using GIS as our data collection, mapping, analysis, and communication platform.

For the Pathway Community:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/97a99d2f8ea94353b6b59b40166098b3

Creating Content for Spatial Analysis

For K-12:

Why today is the ideal time to be a student.

Including activities using the Wayback imagery, water balance, county health, tornado tracks, walkability survey.

Collect tree data in the field using this survey in ArcGIS Survey123, here.

StoryMap containing tree survey, map, and dashboard embedded:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1d710c8cd4974c9bbed9fa0cc667b54b

For Higher Education:

GIS for Conservation Short Course.

Including StoryMap 1:  Approach.  2:  GIS Fundamentals.  3:  Embracing GIS forces, trends, skills.

4:  Symbology, filtering.  5:  Creating table, map, popups.  7:  Survey, map, dashboard, storymap.

8:  Bivariate, scatterplots.  9:  Photos, labels, sketches.  10:  Double Hazards analysis.  

11:  Invasive species analysis.  

Collect field data with survey embedded in this StoryMap and examining results on map and dashboard:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1d710c8cd4974c9bbed9fa0cc667b54b

Then:  Create your own survey, populate it, build map, dashboard, story map.

14:   Georeferencing, creating swipe app.  16: Projections.  26:  Additional Topics.

29:  Quiz Time!

—Joseph Kerski

Sample Tree 2 for Tree Survey
Environmental GIS Learning Resources