Education Blog

2024 Esri Imagery and remote Sensing Educators Summit is an annual virtual event on May 22, 2024, hosted by Esri Education team, in collaboration with other teams at Esri and academic partners.  

Here are links to resources presented during the event.

I recently conducted a full day K-12 workshop for educators.  This essay provides the content, data, and tools that I included in this workshop.  I am posting this so that the educators who participated can dig deeper into the tools after the workshop ended, but also for other educators to use. 

This is the 3rd blog in a 6-part series highlighting the core concepts of a Modern GIS. To view the other blog posts – please visit this page Modern GIS Core Concepts

Over the past few years, Esri’s Education team have been discussing the technology shift and the need for GIS coursework to move from desktop-centric patterns to those that include the web. Desktop GIS is still an integral part of the story – but it is no longer the focus of the story. Desktop GIS is vital for data management, advanced analysis, and cartographic production – but many of those workflows are now part of a web-based context. Desktop tools can now seamlessly consume web-based services published by authoritative geospatial agencies and individuals across the globe. Desktop GIS can publish map services and layers to the cloud – to be consumed by web-based applications and tools, and desktop GIS can edit and manage web-based data and layers.

Through this series, we are asking: So, what does a course look like that focuses on the fundamentals of GIS but adjusts to a more web-centric paradigm?

In this blog, we will be looking at spatial analysis.

The Esri K12 team will be at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in Denver, Colorado on June 23-26. We will in the exhibit hall in booth 640.

An Atlas is a type of an ArcGIS Instant App – and really easy to create if you already have an ArcGIS Group that contains the maps or data you want to appear in the Atlas. In this blog I show three ways to manually embed your atlas or atlas content into a storymap.

Connecting components of modern GIS, including field surveys, dashboards, interactive maps, spatial analysis, and multimedia web mapping applications such as dashboards and story maps help organizations understand key local issues and situations and take action.  In education, they help foster spatial thinking, critical thinking, and rigorous use of GIS tools and data.  This workshop and lesson guides you through the creation of a survey in Survey123, mapping the resulting data in ArcGIS Online, analyzing the data, creating and using an ArcGIS Dashboard, and creating an ArcGIS StoryMap.  It does so through 8 lesson components:  4 introductory lessons, followed by 4 "deeper dives" lessons. 

In this webinar, June 6, from 10am - 11am (PT), you'll discover how to harness the potential of geospatial AI, empowering faculty members, researchers, and students to seamlessly integrate this innovative technology into their work within ArcGIS.

Grab your virtual reality headset and get over to these ten storymaps with virtual field trips.

Explore the growth and value of standards-based, "curriculum-first" instructional materials for use in K12 classrooms.

Drones are becoming more popular and accessible for various applications, such as surveying, monitoring, inspection, and research. Drone imagery has become a popular input data for image and GIS analysis. 

Processing drone imagery and creating useful information products are skills that students should learn before they can use them for analysis.   That's where ArcGIS Drone2Map comes in handy.