GIS LIVE
Team Challenge

Join teachers and students in North Carolina as they use the One NC Naturally Map viewer or NC OneMap to address the following two challenges.

Here is challenge number 1:

Open Places: Wild Spaces are all around us! Where in your community could you find one? Use the One NC Naturally Map viewer or NC OneMap and GIS to find the nearest place in your community. Then take your GPS unit outside and locate one place. Visit the place regularly and observe what changes occur as time passes.

Consider these questions as you prepare to help:

1) How is this Open Space different from your backyard? How is it different from your city or town? How is it alike?

2) How does the spot that you located with your GPS unit change over time ?

2) How do your feelings change as you travel from your backyard, to the Open Space, to your town?

3) How could you use NC OneMap and GIS to manage open spaces in your community?

Learning all you can about One NC Naturally or NC OneMap and GIS, develop a develop plan to help manage open spaces in your community.

Use the Scientific Method or Skillful Problem-Solving Approach to prepare a report.

Your work should include a report, map or series of maps, and a community response plan. Join us on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 as other students and schools share their findings!

Thank you for your contribution to this important project.

Here is challenge number 2:

An NC OneMap Aerial Photo Hunt Contest:

Using your knowledge of NC geography, history, and assorted trivia, as well as the hints and the geographic coordinates, tell us what landmark or natural feature is depicted in each of these aerial photos. Use the NC OneMap viewer to help you.

NC OneMap Aerial Photo Hunt Mystery Locations: http://www.ncsu.edu/scilink/gislive/NCGISLive05_PhotoHunt.html