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/