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Perkins, Nancy; Hazelton, Eric; Erickson, Jeryl; Allan, Walter – Journal of Geography, 2010
Spatial literacy is a new frontier in K-12 education. This article describes a place-based introductory GIS/GPS middle school curriculum unit in which students used measuring tools, GPS units, and My World GIS software to collect physical and spatial data of trees to create a schoolyard tree inventory. Maine students completed "memory…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Maps, Machine Tools, Information Systems