Retired Chapters

The following chapters have been retired from the EET. The tools used in these chapters are no longer available:

• Analyzing Populations with Maps

  Data: Census Data
  Tool: United States-Mexico Demographic Data Viewer
  Generate a series of maps that illustrate population statistics in various states. Analyze the maps to compare how people live in urban and rural settings.

• Investigating Earthquakes with ArcVoyager GIS

  Data: Recent and Historical Earthquake Data
  Tool: ArcVoyager Special Edition GIS
  Explore earthquake data and import them into a Geographic Information System (GIS). Analyze the data to predict where the next big earthquake will occur.

• Investigating Renewable Energy Data from Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Panels

  Data: Soltrex Online Data
  Tool: Microsoft Excel
  Examine solar energy generation; explore websites that monitor and report solar energy production from panels at many different locations; and consider how much of a school's or home's energy needs could be supplied by solar power.

• Evidence for Plate Tectonics

Data: Sea Floor Age, Volcano and Earthquake Distributions.
Tool: My World GIS. (*note that this tool is no longer supported)

Identify relationships among sea-floor age, earthquakes, and volcanoes to understand how they support the theory of plate tectonics.

• Detecting El Nino in Sea Surface Temperature Data

Data: Sea Surface Temperature (SST).
Tool: My World GIS. (*note that this tool is no longer supported)
Examine 15 years of SST data from the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory. Create and analyze average SST maps to identify El Nino and La Nina events.

• How Cities Affect Their Local Climate

Data: GLOBE Program Surface Temperature.
Tool: My World GIS. (*note that this tool is no longer supported)
Explore the urban heat island effect using student collected surface temperature data. Subset large datasets, buffer others, examine spatial relationships, and gather statistics to investigate temperature differences in urban and rural school sites.

• Is Greenland Melting?

Data: Thickness, velocity, and annual melt extents of the Greenland ice sheet
Tool: My World GIS (*note that this tool is no longer supported)
Explore map layers to examine annual melting and long-term changes of Greenland's ice sheet.

• Looking into Earth with GIS

Data: Seismic Wave Model Output.
Tools: My World GIS (*note that this tool is no longer supported), Microsoft Excel.
Examine seismic wave data in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Analyze wave velocities to infer the depth of the crust-mantle boundary.

• Mapping Local Data in GIS

Data: Student-collected GPS data and site characterizations
Tools: My World GIS (*note that this tool is no longer supported), spreadsheet program
Follow a study of Urban Heat Islands as an example of map-based science research projects.

• Protecting Wetlands for Exurban Development

Data: Land Use and Land Cover TOOL:
Tools: My World GIS (*note that this tool is no longer supported)
Examine land-use changes around Macclenny, Florida. Propose locations for future development that minimize impacts on wetlands.

• Seeing the Forest for the Trees: What's in your Woods?

Data: Forest Inventory Growth and Analysis data
Tools: My World GIS (*note that this tool is no longer supported), spreadsheet program
Investigate forest biodiversity in Maine and consider the environmental factors that contribute to tree species diversity.