Clipperton Island FR - It Has Been a Long Time Between Maps and Why.
Clipperton Island - DigitalGlobe Image taken from Google Earth
Clipperton Island - EEVS Precision Map (1:17030)
I have been a busy map maker these past four months. My day job, as many of you know, is a middle school teacher. That means that every weekday I attempt to teach meaningful Social Studies lessons to a room full of less than eager students. This year I am trying something different, I teach Social Studies lessons using both Google Earth and Quantum GIS mapping software.
For example, we just completed a unit on Mesopotamia. Instead of a textbook only lesson, first we toured modern day Mesopotamia (Iraq) using Google Earth. After our preliminary inspection of the area, we used a raster image of a world map (Natural World II) from Shaded Relief as our base image and applied a number of vector layers to enable better orientation. Then the students created point files of various Mesopotamian city-states. They also created transparent polygons which detailed the extent of various ruling empires
We have just began our unit on Africa and will be exploring West Africa using Google Earth and Quantum GIS. So far, so good! The students are gaining a working understanding of spatial data and how it can be displayed and used. They are even learning "map speak" - polygons, shape files, symbology, etc.
So, I haven't had much time to make island maps. In fact, Clipperton Island is my first in over four months. I love making island maps, but I love teaching students the craft of map making even more. Let's see if I can indulge in both of these fine activities.
Enjoy!
Labels: Clipperton Island, DigitalGlobe, EEVS Precision, Google Earth, Quantum GIS, Shaded Relief
Glad youre back and happy to hear about your day-job. Have you had any thoughts about making the material for your students opensource? In that way, also students all over the world would benefit from your GoogleEarth/QGIS lectures.
Keep up the good work
Sigbjørn
Norway
Posted by
Anonymous |
11/29/2010 12:22:00 AM
Can you post some of your students work please? I'm very impressed with all your maps and hope to see some more from you soon! Great job!
Posted by
Anonymous |
12/06/2010 10:30:00 PM
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