Geographic Information Systems

Working with the Rain Gauges for our Project

Here is a large video clip of our students setting up their GIS project. (If you are not on a fast connection, this could take a while to download)

Rainwater.mpg 9MB

Example Maps and Pictures from our GIS project.

Integrated Curriculum and Instruction Design Templates

Integrated Curriculum and Instruciton Design: Inquiry-Based Learning

Watershed Links

Illinois State Museum GIS laboratory http://www.museum.state.il.us/research/GISlab/

Global Rivers Environmental Education Network http://www.earthforce.org/green/

Watershed Tools and Resources: http://www.green.org/resources/#Water%20Quality%20Monitoring

Water Science for Schools: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/helptopics.html

Aerial Maps for Arcview

http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/webdocs/doqs/index.html