How Can GIS Help With AP Human Geography? Part 1 of 2
For five decades, the College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP) has provided students with the opportunity to take college-level coursework and earn college credit while still in high school. AP...
View ArticleHow Can GIS Help With AP Human Geography? Part 2 of 2
In my last column, I discussed the contents and increasing popularity of the College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP) Human Geography course. One of the five major goals in the AP Human...
View ArticlePopulation Drift: Analyzing the Drift of Mean Population Centers Over Time...
The examination of mean centers of geographic phenomena is a powerful spatial analytical tool. The mean center is the point at which a given set of features can “balance” as on the point of a pencil....
View ArticleMapping Sports Allegiances with GIS [ #SuperBowl Packers Steelers ]
Esri is hosting a Super Bowl fan map, on http://thebiggame.esri.com/superbowl/. Created with ArcGIS Server and Flex, your vote will be instantly recorded in the database and displayed on the map. You...
View ArticleFirst 2011 Webinar: 10 Tips for Easy Web Mapping in the Classroom Tomorrow [...
10 Tips for Easy Web Mapping in the Classroom Tomorrow Date and Time: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 9pm EDT/8pm CDT (1 hour). Webinar presented by: Esri Education Team, Esri and the National Council...
View ArticleCivil War Sesquicentennial: Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861 the range of issues that the country had been contending with for decades erupted into armed conflict between the North and the South. It began at Fort Sumter, an island Federal...
View ArticleMapping Our World for ArcGIS Online Released!
The award-winning instructional materials collection Mapping Our World is now available for ArcGIS Online! This latest edition requires no software or data installation and is available at no cost....
View ArticleCall for beta testers: Advanced Human Geography GeoInquiries
GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the...
View ArticleGeoInquiries for Advanced Human Geography Released!
A new collection of geoinquiries for high school advanced human geography has been released. The collection contains 15 activities and maps tied to the AP benchmarks for human geography and the most...
View ArticleUrban Areas and Edge Cities – Classroom Activity
Edge Cities PDF Explore the size, layout, and composition of urban areas around the world with the new advanced human geography geoinquiry activity. What characteristics define a city? What factors...
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