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engaging content on relevant issues of our planet tied to real-
time data. For example, as part of our focus on created STEM
(Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) resources here
at Esri, I recently created a volcanoes of the world map in
ArcGIS Online with webcams. Each webcam is tied to selected
volcanoes as images tied to the popups that appear when the user
clicks on each one of them. The webcams update every minute or
every few minutes depending on how the webcam operator set them
up. This map can serve as an engaging introduction to a unit on
the differences in the types of volcanoes. And since the map is
inside ArcGIS Online, additional content such as earthquakes and
plate boundaries can be added with the click of the mouse. After
doing so, students could investigate the relationships between
all of these phenomena in a plate tectonics unit. What is the
distribution of volcanoes around the world? Why do some types of
plate boundar