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GIS in the School Curriculum
| Title | GIS in the School Curriculum |
| Aidamount | 362.500 |
| Organization | The Municipality of Aalborg, DAKS |
| Conclusion | Ingen side valgt |
| Homepage | No homepage |
| Contact | Hans Hylleberg, Consultant Advisor hhyll@daks.dk |
| Other participants | Informi GIS a/s |
| Theme | Education |
| Keywords | Geographic Informations System
Public primary schools |
| Project start | 01 October 2001 |
| Project end | 31 December 2003 |
| Description | Over recent years the GIS system has been committed in a wide range of fields within the public and private sector. GIS is the abbreviation for Geographic Information System. In practice GIS based systems provide a clear and easy to use graphic and logic access to large amounts of data.
The object of the ”GIS in the School Curriculum” is to develop guides and a series of educational courses and packages for use in the primary school using the GIS system as a tool for performing various analyses on data and viewing the results in an clear and easy to see graphic form. Data to be viewed can be existing data or data collected by the pupils. It is a project goal to try putting the GIS to use in many subject specific contexts and also to find new unconventional fields of application.
Within the project ready to use datasets, Teacher's and Pupils' Guides etc., will be produced for use in educational sessions, enabling the teacher to initiate such sessions within a reasonable time of preparation.
Generally projects using the GIS will make a basis for e.g.:
- cross-disciplinary activities
- field work collecting own data
- a presentation of results using new means of presentations
- task sharing and co-operation for joint solutions
- good potential for educational differentiation
- open projects, to be worked on a long term basis
- general use of IT tools
Examples of a base for an educational course:
”Small-biotopes” – The pupils own recording of a fauna or flora in a particular area. Which locations accommodate many species and few species respectively? Which factors go along and which exclude each other respectively? Seasonal variations?
”Water/Heat Consumption on Schools” – Compare the water/heat consumption of the municipal schools related to the number of pupils/the number of square meters.
"Know your City" (Data from municipal and local history archives. Old scanned maps and new vector based maps, own data from e.g. interviews etc.
27 Oak Boulevard - A Time Travel: How many residents lived on this address in the years 1800, 1850, 1900, 1950 etc.? (In addition to figures, pictures may be entered, maps from that time can be viewed etc.)
The pupils can locate themselves and their friends on the map.
The project has been established by the municipality of Aalborg, the School and Culture Administration and Informi GIS A/S, and is expected to run for approx. 2 years. |
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