Workshops: 2003 Workshops

GIS Leadership Series - click here for a description of all 5 steps
Discover how GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology can enrich environmental education in your classroom. Workshops include an examination of water issues in North Carolina, focusing on polluted runoff, using ArcVoyager and ArcView software. GPS units used on site. All GIS workshops offered on the NC State University campus, 5th floor Jordan Hall, Raleigh, N.C.

Step I. Beginning ArcVoyager Workshop
May 2 and 3, Friday night and Saturday
Participants will learn how to use GIS in the classroom using ArcVoyager Special Edition, free GIS software. See where and how to access free local data from the Internet (could be GLOBE data) and learn how to construct a Community Atlas project (through which K12 schools can earn additional free GIS software). Participants will receive instructional notebooks with curricular plans and ideas, software, and a data CD. Cost is $15.00 for registration.

Step II. Mapping Our School Site (MOSS)
June 9-13
July 21-25 (get to know Brazilian educators during this special session)
Mapping Our School Site (MOSS) is a free online curriculum that integrates the teaching of inquiry and problem-solving using ArcView (GIS), and GPS as students learn environmental science concepts. Learn how you can use digital aerial photography to map and model your school campus. Additional related lab activities will be shared. Participants will receive software, data CD, and an instructional notebook with curricular plans and ideas. Cost is $60.00 for registration.

Step IV. Advanced GIS
June 16-20
For those who have basic proficiency with the use of ArcView geographic information system (GIS) software in schools, this workshop will help you to develop advanced skills and become a mentor to other teachers. Learn how to locate data, especially on water related topics and prepare it for students’ use. Learn how to use extensions in order to give your GIS software more capability. Cost is $60.00 for registration.

Grandfather Mountain Residential Workshop
A workshop for educators in the mountain environment. Participants will have an entirely different mountain experience, as we share with visitors from Brazil and Finland. Lectures, discussions with scientists, and outdoor activities on air quality, mountain bogs, habitat preservation, biodiversity, and human influences. Participation in fieldwork, technology applications, environmental monitoring, ArcVoyager instruction. Choose one focus: Life/Environmental Science or Earth/Environmental Science.
July 27-August 1, Sunday-Friday

Brazilian Educators in NC! Share Your World . . .
with a Brazilian educator on Sunday, July 20. Pick up your educator between 9-10 am, then share the day, returning them late afternoon. Perhaps visit a Raleigh museum and surroundings and share a family dinner—it’s up to you. We hope to show visitors a home in the Triangle, types of food, and entertainment. Interested? Send a message to nancywalters44@hotmail.com.

Graduate credit, CEU, Technology credit, and EEU credits available upon successful completion of additional requirements.

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