Education Blog

How can teachers, IT staffs, schools, and districts all improve learning with ArcGIS Online Organizations?

In this year's event, hundreds of students in grades 4-12 across USA submitted competition entries. How did your state do?

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. 

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 schools, colleges, universities, and other organizations understand important local issues and situations and inspire them to take action.  In education, using these tools 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. 

Last year Esri introduced a certification exam that’s appropriate for teachers and high school students with 150+ hours of training in GIS. To keep the exam current, it is regularly reviewed and updated. You’ll find a new version available with some key updates.

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

What is the first Earth Day you remember? What are you doing -- every day -- to help?