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Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information System (GIS) instruction. The Determining Ecoroof Locations to Improve...

Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information System (GIS) instruction. The Determining Greenway Potential in...

Learning Unit Description:  The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instruction. The Classifying Land Cover in Minnesota and...

This activity, created by Clint Moseley, demonstrates the embodied energy hidden in the products people use, purchase, and throw away, in addition to the travel people undertake. Students will use actual utility statements, spending habits, and travel history to calculate their own carbon footprint,...

This resource, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a lesson contextualized for students in the health sector. Students are provided data about Lyme Disease and asked to read graphs and tables for information, create a bar graph, use ratio and...

This scenario-based instructional activity card, from the ATE 2.0: Preparing Technicians for the Future of Work project, was created to support the implementation of the Cross-Disciplinary STEM CORE Framework. This framework has the following three skill areas: Data Knowledge and Analysis, Advanced...

In this activity, developed by the Lane Community College MAPS GIS Program, students "use logical connectors in searching a database to understand how quickly the search narrows by adding connectors. They will translate a search in to logic notation and sketch a digital circuit. Finally, they will...

This lesson, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has students work in groups to work through a set of discovery activities. These activities are intended to help students develop the distributive property of multiplication over addition using the...

This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an exploration in division with fractions and decimal numbers. In this lesson, students work individually and in pairs to solve application problems using multiple methods. This lesson plan includes...

This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an exploration in division with fractions. In this lesson students work in pairs to use models, drawings, and equations to solve application problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication...