Analyzing Our World Using GIS: Our World GIS Education, Level 3

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Analyzing Our World Using GIS features lessons that focus on the local impact of global issues. Students will gain independence in working with geographic information systems (GIS) and proficiency in exploring geographic data to complete sophisticated workflows such as retrieving data and applying ArcGIS® extensions. Analyzing Our World Using GIS is an instructor resource text recommended for grades 9 and up.

The third volume in the Our World GIS Education series promotes inquiry-based learning in world geography and other disciplines through the use of GIS, a technology that combines interactive mapping software and geographic data with students’ natural curiosity about the world. Analyzing Our World Using GIS combines the open-ended exploration inherent in GIS with the structure of nationally standardized course content, classroom activities, teacher notes, student handouts, and assessments.

The book and accompanying materials help both GIS novices and experienced users conduct far-ranging geographic exploration.

In 1999, Anita M. Palmer and Roger Palmer founded GIS Etc., where they help educators develop their skills in teaching geospatial technologies to students from kindergarten to the college level. Roger is an experienced middle and high school teacher who works as an education consultant with GIS Etc. along with his wife Anita. Over the past several years, Anita has trained thousands of teachers in GIS fundamentals and taught them how to use GIS in their classrooms.

Lyn Malone, a former teacher and cartographer, works as an educational consultant specializing in classroom applications of geospatial technologies. Lyn was Rhode Island’s Social Studies Teacher of the Year in 1995 and has received awards from the National Council for Geographic Education, the National Geographic Society Education Foundation, American Forests, and ESRI for her innovative curriculum development and implementation.

Christine L. Voigt is an award-winning educator and freelance curriculum writer from Dallas, Texas. She serves as a teacher consultant for National Geographic Society and a member of the ESRI K–12 Authorized Teaching Program.