GIS Resources for K-12 (Updated 9/14/2005)
Mapping Our School Site
http://www.ncsu.edu/scilink/studysite
Explore your school environment and ecosystem relationships with a series of lessons and resources from Sci-Link and North Carolina State University.
National Geographic - Geography Awareness Week
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/habitats/gaw.html
USGS Educational Resources and Map Adventures
http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/outreach/
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/mapadv.htm
Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp
GIS 2 GPS Portal
http://www.gis2gps.com/
GIS Lounge k-12
http://gislounge.com/ll/k12education.shtml
ESRI K-12 program
http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/
Geography Resources
http://www.educationindex.com/geography/
ArcLessons - ESRI's archive of over 100 GIS -based lessons.
http://gis.esri.com/industries/education/arclessons/arclessons.cfm
KanGIS – GIS Lessons, programs, research, and resources.
http://kangis.org/
MapCruzinTM GIS-Tutorial
http://www.mapcruzin.com/learn_to_map/
Mapping The Environment
http://www.mobot.org/education/mapping/mappd.htm
Explore the environment, climate, and biomes in this series of lessons and resources from the Missouri Botanical Garden.
What Is GIS?
http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/
Informative USGS GIS poster: What GIS is, why it is used, and how it is used around the world in specific applications.
What is GIS and Online GIS mapping?
http://www.ncsu.edu/gisined
An introduction to GIS and in Additional Resources lots of links to GIS Resources, GPS Resources, Earth, Weather, Remote Sensing and a host of other online map servers.
NC OneMap
http://www.nconemap.com/
Users will be able to view geographic data seamlessly across NC
One NC Naturally – Conservation Lands in NC Map viewer
http://www.onencnaturally.org/pages/mapviewer.html
Map Conservation Lands in your part of North Carolina
Online Mapping From the NC Center for Health Statistics
http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/gis/atlas/index.html
The North Carolina Health Atlas contains maps of North Carolina that depict county level health and health-related information.
List of interactive Web Mapping sites in North Carolina
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis/webmap.html
Many County and City web mapping sites
Historic Louis and Clark Trail and Online GIS Mapping
http://lewisclark.geog.missouri.edu/website/lewisclark1/viewer.htm
Mapping Opportunities Article
http://www.aag.org/nature/nature.htm
Informative article from Nature magazine, Spring 2004, describing the importance of geography, spatial thinking, and GIS careers.
Free Desktop GIS Software that anyone can download and use to learn more about Geographic Information Systems
Quantum GIS / http://www.qgis.org/ (for Macs too!)uDig / http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/ (for Macs too!)
JUMP / http://www.jump-project.org/project.php?PID=JUMP&SID=OVER
GRASS / http://grass.itc.it/index.php
NASA's World Wind / http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Much More… / http://www.maptools.org/