About this Book: |
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MapTEACH (Mapping Technology Experiences with Alaska’s Cultural Heritage) is an educational curriculum for middle and high school students designed to help them understand the physical and cultural features of their environment, and use mapping technologies to enhance and portray that new understanding. As such, it emphasizes the integration of three focus areas: geoscience, local landscape knowledge, and geographic information science (GPS, GIS and remotely sensed imagery). MapTEACH gives Alaskan students the opportunity to make a connection between traditional ways of viewing the landscape, scientific ways of making observations about the landscape, and the process of using cutting-edge information technologies to gather and disseminate information about the landscape. This curriculum is place-based and interdisciplinary in nature, and seeks to connect students, teachers, community members and scientists in an exploration of the local landscape from multiple perspectives.
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About the Author: |
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De Anne Stevens, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Alaska Department of Natural Resources
Sidney Stephens, UA Geography Program/School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Patty Burns, GeoData Center - Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Sam Batzli and Timothy Olsen, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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