Our World GIS Education: Thinking Spatially Using GIS, Mapping
Our World Using GIS, Analyzing Our World Using GIS, and Making
Spatial Decisions Using GIS Winner of the 2008 Geography
Excellence in Media (GEM) Awards by The National Council for
Geographic Education. Our World GIS Education was developed to
enhance geographic information system (GIS) learning for
students of all levels, grade school through college, and to
provide teachers with comprehensive and easy-to-use resources
for GIS instruction in the classroom. Creatively inspired by the
award-winning Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators
(MOWGLE), Our World GIS Education offers flexible GIS resources
with the latest Esri software technology for all educators.
Teachers are given all of the tools necessary to easily
incorporate GIS into their curriculum, regardless of their level
of experience teaching GIS. The lessons and projects provide an
opportunity to combine global and regional geographic themes and
issues, inquiry-based learning, and int