Casper WY GIS Institute

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Casper WY GIS Institute

• April 13-14th
• Casper H.S.

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Introduction

• expert vs. practitioner
• 5-min. warning
• Re-Invention of the wheel?

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GPS Treasure Hunt

• Download waypoints to GPS unit
• Go outside and find treasure
• Upload points into Ozi Explorer
• Convert files to use in ArcView/ArcGIS

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Ki-Yi Treasure Hunt
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GPS/GIS at WHS - Unit

• Covered background information
• 2 days GPS unit training
• 1 day of Ki-Yi Treasure Hunt
• 3 days of ArcView software training
• 3 days mapping our routes in WTN

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9-12 WORLD GEOGRAPHY STANDARDS

• 1. use maps, globes, and other geographic tools
  to acquire, process, and report information from
  a spatial perspective by selecting appropriate
  maps, map projections, and other graphic
  representations to analyze geographic problems
  constructing maps using fundamental cartographic
  principles including translating narratives about
  places and events into graphic representations
  interpreting maps and other geographic tools
  through the analysis of case studies and using
  data and using geographic tools to represent and
  interpret the earths physical and human systems.

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Ki-Yi Unit Objectives

• After completing this unit the student will be
  able to understand
• how to care and operate the handheld GPS units.
• the many real-world applications of GPS and GIS
  systems.
• how GPS/GIS have affected their world and
  possible uses for them in their future.
• how to correctly generate and use map projections
  of various types.

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Ki-Yi Unit Tasks

• Hook How GPS is used today. Military and
  civilian uses.
• Ambush in Iraq Laser Guided Missiles
• GPS Guided boat to Cuba

• Discuss misconceptions and current knowledge of
  GPS or GIS systems handout.
• View the website GPS Uses in Everyday Life
  Aerospace Corporation GPS primer and complete
  worksheet.
• Go over Location Review document and website
  World Atlas.com Latitude and Longitude

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Ki-Yi Unit Tasks

• GPS/GIS consumer uses Internet activity.
• With the GPS unit in hand, read through the User
  Guide overview.
• Learn to set a waypoint and navigate to it. Enter
  ______________ as the goto point and determine
  what is at that location.
• Partner up and do Ki-Yi Treasure Hunt.

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Ki Yi Treasure Hunt
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Ki Yi Treasure Hunt
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Setting Waypoint
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Locating Waypoint
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GPS/GIS Unit Tasks

• Upload waypoints from Ki-Yi treasure hunt into
  your computer using OziExplorer.
• Complete Mapping Our World module one in ArcView.
  
• Complete Mapping Our World module five in
  ArcView.
• Work with Treasure Hunt shapefile to map route
  and home.

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GPS/GIS Unit Tasks

• Print map and turn in.
• Take GPS overview quiz.
• Complete GIS/GPS journal prompt.

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Base Layer
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Treasure Hunt Waypoints
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Treasure Hunt Route
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City Street Layer
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House Location
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Route to School
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Completed Map
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Using the Inquiry Model of Learning
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Geographic Inquiry Process
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Step 1

• Ask geographic questions
• Ask questions to learn about the world around you.

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Step 2

• Acquire geographic resources
• Identify data and information that you need to
  answer your questions

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Step 3

• Explore geographic data
• Turn the data into maps, tables, and graphs and
  look for patterns and relationships

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Step 4

• Analyze geographic data
• Go deeper into geographic exploration and draw
  conclusions to answer your question

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Step 5

• Act upon geographic knowledge
• Take your work to others to educate, make a
  decision, or solve a problem.

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Integrative Geohistorical Inquiry
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Phase 1

• Frame geohistorical research in key themes
• People culture, politics, economics, and
  technology
• Landscape water, landforms, resources, climate,
  vegetation
• Interactions exploration, settlement, conflict,
  boundaries, networks, change

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Phase 2

• Engage in local geohistorical studies
• Create a project based on the history of Casper
  or its settlement
• Model after examples in handout
• Include primary documents especially historical
  maps

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Phase 3

• Shift between local outcomes and larger contexts
• Local research should be linked to broader,
  larger story
• Ex. How history of Casper relates to westward
  expansion and U.S. government policies of 1800s

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Phase 4

• Apply findings to the present and the future
• What was _______ like then?
• What is _________ like today?
• Why the change?

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Phase 5

• Transfer knowledge and skills to other places,
  times, and themes.

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Casper city GIS
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Big Sioux River Water Project
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GPS/GIS Scope and Sequence
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Purpose

• To identify desired skills and concepts we want
  students to learn
• To spiral learning so we are building a
  foundation and expanding on previous
  knowledge/skills.

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Desired Outcome

• What is the final product you want?
• When students leave Casper schools they should
  know how to

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Skills necessary to achieve goal

• What specific GPS or GIS skills do you think
  students should have to meet goal?
• Identify skills necessary
• When should they learn it?
• What subject should they learn it in?

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Match skills to content

• What subject area would the skill be best learned
  in?
• Ex. World Geography spatial awareness
• Ex. Physical science environmental processes
• Ex. Math statistics

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Data Sources
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Current Data sets

• Soil samples, fire damage, ?

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WY Spatial Data Clearinghouse

• http//wgiac2.state.wy.us/html/index.asp

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File compression

• 1 pixel 1 _____?

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Prairie to Mountain Explorer

• PTME
• Regional data
• Wyoming data
• Coal
• Soil
• Watersheds
• Crops
• Livestock
• Climate
• Base layers

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ESRI Data