An Introduction to ArcView by using Geographic Information Systems as a Problem Solving Tool for Environmental Issues.

Mark Johnson-Ithaca high School and Cornell University


Participants in this presentation will receive an introduction to Geographic Information Systems and ArcView software. This Skills workshop will also involve three lessons using GIS to solve environmental problems. Each of these lessons has been field tested in high school classrooms utilizing students at both the basic and advanced levels. The first lesson involves a comparison of several map types to introduce the student to using ArcView. The other two lessons utilize canned data sets to solve two environmental problems. Get involved and help solve land use problems by "Using GIS to Site a Landfill" and grapple with water quality issues by solving "The Case of the Mutated Bullhead". All datasets and teacher's notes for these lessons are available to participants on CD upon request.