GIS Resource Portfolio
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
A peer-reviewed teaching activity page detailing a semester-long GIS course assignment where students create a personalized, organized, and future-useful GIS resource portfolio, including data sources, software projects, and annotated references, assessed via iterative rubric-based evaluations. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Radar reflectivity analysis using GIS
Hari Kandel, Lake Superior State University
This exercise is about visualizing and analyzing radar reflectivity data for a hurricane event using GIS. Radar, an acronym for radio detection and ranging, is an active remote sensor that uses radio waves to ...

GIS course final project
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Instructional activity page detailing a final project for an entry-level GIS course where students design and conduct independent geospatial analyses and develop teachable classroom activities based on their work, emphasizing higher-order thinking, data evaluation, and pedagogical design, part of the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching collection. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Karst Hydrogeology: A virtual field introduction using Google Earth and GIS
Rachel Bosch, Northern Kentucky University
Students will have the opportunity to select and virtually explore the hydrogeology and geomorphology of a karst landscape using Google Earth, lidar data-sourced DEM(s) and geologic maps, and GIS software (QGIS) ...

Conservation Biology GIS lab exploration
Rose McKenney, Pacific Lutheran University
Educational resource page offering a peer-reviewed, exemplary GIS lab activity for conservation biology, designed for upper-division undergraduate students, featuring downloadable teaching materials and data sets to explore geospatial analysis in environmental management contexts. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Semester GIS project
Jonathon Little, Monroe Community College
Instructional activity page detailing a semester-long GIS project for introductory college students, where they use geospatial tools to develop original maps addressing real-world environmental problems, with provided rubrics, templates, and peer-reviewed teaching resources. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

GIS Applications in Hydrologic Processes
John Van Hoesen, Green Mountain College
Educational activity page detailing a GIS-based hydrology assignment where students compare digital and traditional analog methods for estimating areal precipitation, delineating watersheds, and modeling evapotranspiration, emphasizing critical evaluation of assumptions, technical skills in ArcGIS, and higher-order thinking through hands-on analysis and workflow assessment. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Finding and predicting hurricane activity through GIS
Jennifer Gebelein, Florida International University
Students must be able to search for, find, download, display, query and map hurricane and other relevant GIS data. Hurricane data spans 1851-2008 and is from: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp ...

Landscape Interpretation and Visualization Using A GIS
John Van Hoesen, Green Mountain College
This is an educational activity page from the On the Cutting Edge collection that presents a GIS-based lab exercise for undergraduate geomorphology students to interpret and visualize landscapes using digital elevation data, comparing analog topographic map skills with modern GIS tools like ArcGIS, Spatial Analyst, and 3D Analyst to enhance spatial reasoning and understanding of terrain-forming processes. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology: A virtual field experience using Google Earth, GIS, and TAK
Rachel Bosch, Northern Kentucky University
Students will have the opportunity to select and virtually explore the hydrogeology and geomorphology of a karst landscape using Google Earth (or perhaps Google Mars or Google Moon if they so choose), lidar ...