Modeling Rare Plant Distributions Using ArcGIS part of Teaching Activities
In this activity, students work with rare plant occurrence data from the Nature Reserve of Orange County, California to create species distribution maps in ArcGIS. Students are given shapefiles of species ...

Quaternary mapping in Bells Canyon as an introduction to ArcGIS Pro part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This lab is intended to take a GIS novice and introduce them to mapping in ArcGIS Pro by producing a Quaternary map of Bells Canyon in Utah. It can be used as a first GIS exercise to introduce select skills to the ...

Mapping Ice Melt Extent in Greenland between 1979-2007 Using ArcGIS part of Teaching Activities
This activity introduces students to Greenland ice-melt data derived from passive microwave remote sensing between the years 1979 and 2007. Students make a quantitative comparison between the two years using the ...

Burn Scar Analysis for the 2018 Paradise Fires Using ArcGIS Pro part of Service Learning:Activities
This exercise introduces students to satellite imagery analysis of burn scars, using the 2018 Camp Fire of Butte County, California. Students will learn to pre-process and enhance these images in order to create a ...

Intro. to ArcGIS and Maps part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Chad Heinzel, University of Northern Iowa Summary Preparation for understanding the ArcGIS software and developing activities using local data. Context Type and level of course Entry level in-service teachers or ...

Gathering field data using a GPS and ArcGIS 9.3 Part 2: streaming data and contouring part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Outdoor Classroom:Activities
This exercise introduces streaming data collection using ArcGIS and a GPS receiver. Analysis of these data serve as an introduction to the art of contouring and topographic map making. Routines within ArcGIS ...

Tectonic Geomorphology: Exploring activity on the San Andreas fault with ArcGIS part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
In this activity students develop an hypothesis as how slope morphology reflects the timing of motion on a fault, in this case the classic Wallace Creek segment of the San Andreas. It is a scaffolded, problem-based ...

Gathering field data using a GPS and ArcGIS 9.3 Part 1: Collecting Point Data part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Outdoor Classroom:Activities
Students learn how GPS and GIS can be used to gather and analyze point data. The main outcome is a digital map of campus trees classified by size and type. The technical skills learned in this lab will be used in a ...

GIS Analysis of Shoreline Change Using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) part of Teaching Activities
The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) is a software extension for ArcGIS that allows for automated shoreline change calculations along the coast. The user must supply the shoreline data and the software ...

Geocoding in ArcGIS: The Spread of Target and Walmart part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Catherine Riihimaki, Drew University Summary Students geocode the locations of Walmart and Target stores across the US, create a map for each company, and interpret the distribution of stores using ArcMaps ...