GIS Across the Curriculum
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What is GIS? Here are slides showing definitions of GIS and examples for the news and other sources to show how GIS can be used in teaching in a variety of disciplines
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GIS Across the Curriculum
- 1. GIS Across the Curriculum Meg Stewart January 22, 2013
- 2. Agenda • What is GIS? • What does GIS look like across the curriculum? • How does one do GIS?
- 3. Spatial thinking is an ability to visualize and interpret location, distance, direction, relationships, movement and change through space.
- 6. Spatial literacy is an important component in digital literacy and media fluency. With GIS, one can gain an understanding of data and how data can be represented.
- 11. GIS Data Management Thematic layers One layer for each theme… Roads Land use Streams Elevation Aerial photographs… http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/resources/class
- 13. Railroad lines
- 14. Tax parcels
- 15. Building points
- 16. Select
- 17. Buffer & select
- 19. Science, Technology, Engineering & Math - STEM Digital GIS social sciences Digital humanities
- 20. Why Is GIS Unique? • GIS handles Spatial information – Information referenced by its location in space • GIS helps make connections between features based on spatial proximity • GIS addresses and helps to evaluate relationships between otherwise un-relatable data
- 21. If you have some sort of information (current, past, or projected) and you have a location to attach to that information, you can analyze it in GIS.
- 22. Examples of GIS
- 26. Sites of "Civil Disorders" in the United States January - September, 1967
- 30. NY Times: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/mapping-toilets-in-a-mumbai-slum-yields-unexpected-results/ Map: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms? vps=2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=213281544174043702623.0004b617c56e89532fff9
- 32. What County-by-County Results Tell Us About the Election http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323894704578105031877259720.html
- 33. Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/ University of Michigan
- 34. Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/ University of Michigan
- 35. Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/ University of Michigan
- 37. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/red-state-blue-city-how- the-urban-rural-divide-is-splitting-america/265686/ Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/ University of Michigan
- 42. Economics
- 45. Biology
- 50. Source (Nov. 2012): http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2012/1120-sandy/survey-of-the-flooding-in- new-york-after-the-hurricane.html
- 51. Source (Dec 23, 2012): http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2012/1120-sandy/survey-of-the-flooding- in-new-york-after-the-hurricane.html
- 52. Source (Dec 23, 2012): http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2012/1120-sandy/survey-of-the-flooding- in-new-york-after-the-hurricane.html
- 57. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/petition-to-secede-states_n_2120410.html#slide=more32984
- 62. What could the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, actually see during the battle of Gettysburg? Anne Kelly Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/27/arts/spatial-maps.html
- 65. Witchcraft Charges Why did witchcraft charges spread so rapidly and widely in 1692, affecting 156 people — 15 times more than in any other incident — across 25 communities in Essex County, Mass? Benjamin Ray, the director of the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive at the University of Virginia http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/maps/regionmap/regionmap.html
- 66. Where did Georgia O’Keeffe paint Roof with Snow?
- 67. Mapping the SS Concentration Camp System Over Space and Time Map Showing Overlap of Concentration Camps and Subcamp System with Industrial Resources and Installations, 1933-1945. Each cross represents a main camp or subcamp, while the red shading indicates concentrations of the iron/steel industry and blue shading references centers of machine tool production. Anne Kelly Knowles and Paul B. Jaskot, with Chester W. http://www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/holocaust- Harvey, Charlie Hofmann, Toral geographies/?content=sscamp Patel, Roz Vara, and Alexander Yule
- 70. NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of-food-deserts-and-obesity- challenged-in-studies.html?_r=1& Map: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-desert-locator/go-to-the-locator.aspx
- 73. http://www.ers.usda.gov/d ata-products/atlas-of-rural- and-small-town- america/go-to-the- atlas.aspx
- 74. How do you do GIS?
- 81. GIS Data Polygons Country State County Census Tract Census Blockgroup Census Block Zip code Area code School district Tax parcel
- 93. GIS is the best way to answer spatial questions like… • Which properties are within 500 feet of Lawrenceville Road? • How many people live within a mile of the elementary school? • What terrain is visible from the Franklin Moore Library? • When and where might the next hurricane hit?
- 94. Functions of a GIS or How GIS is different than Google Earth • Query • Buffer • Proximity • Connectivity • Modeling
- 95. If you have some sort of information (current, past, or projected) and you have a location to attach to that information, you can analyze it in GIS.