by Allen Davidson, Assistant Superintendent of Employee Services
Barb Boerchers, Middle Years Consultant, River East Transcona School
Division presented an overview of a learning opportunity that brought students
and teachers together as co-learners to engage in a multidisciplinary project.
Teachers and students researched Canadian artists, current environmental
issues, connecting them to past landscapes and creating an action plan for the
future. Information was then integrated (synthesized) and mapped through a
Geographic Information System (GIS) from ESRI ArcGIS online which mapped
student writing, artwork, and action plans to an interactive map of Canada.
Here are a few of the great links to resources used to both front
load and support learning through this work at the Grades 6-9 level.
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Chris Jordan - Running The Numbers:
Portraits of Mass Consumption
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Sign Up for Free with ESRI to
get your students mapping their learning and developing Geographic Literacy. http://esri.ca/en/content/gis-classroom
