Many of our projects focus on the use of geospatial technologies and how to use those technologies to explore issues of social and environmental justice of interest to students.
These technologies allow the visualization, manipulation, and analysis of a wide set of data including ecological, sociological, and demographic data. Geographic...
Our project team consists of a diverse group of individuals including faculty members and graduate students. Our team consists of scientists, counseling psychologists, educational researchers, science educators, and an educational technologist.
Faculty
Catherine Wong – Director of Urban Outreach
David Blustein – Professor of...
What we do
We are a group of interdisciplinary educational researchers, educational technologists, scientists, and teachers that work on developing and researching creative and innovative approaches to engage students in the study of science. In particular, much of our work has focused on and around developing instructional...
A central component of much of our work has been focused on the development, implementation, and research on the use of innovative curriculum materials across the K-12 spectrum. Our project team has been working on several pieces of curriculum materials including:
A year long textbook on urban ecology for high school
Modules in Urban Ecology...
PEIR is an online service that interacts with your mobile phone to provide you with an environmental “scorecard” that tracks some of your effects on the environment and some of what you are exposed to as you go about your day. http://peir.cens.ucla.edu/index.php/about/ This is a really cool and interesting use of mobile technologies coupled with GPS Share on Facebook
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Our urban tree project which was recently published in the Science Teacher was posted on the ESRI education blog community page. The link is very long so we did a tiny url below for the direct link to the post. http://tinyurl.com/ykaz262 Share on Facebook
Read MoreWhere to GIS data
There are many places on the web to get and download GIS data. This post we list a few of the places where one can access and download data for use in GIS projects: Massachusetts GIS data site: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/laylist.htm This site has lots of satellite imagery as well as other data ready for use in ArcMap. Some examples of the data are roads, schools, metro lines and maps. Reference USA: ...
Read MoreCITYgreen 2009 Guides Available
Our project team has put together a set of print tutorial guides along with corresponding pod and video casts for CITYgreen 2009. The link below is the direct link to the materials. We will be updating and including additional tutorial guides for CITYgreen 2009. We plan to include additional lesson plans as well as additional activities on how to conduct scenario modeling in CITYgreen...
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