by Barbaree | Nov 21, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
As you prepare for turkey day tomorrow – whether you\’re travelling to family, shopping, cooking or frantically cleaning for company (or several of the above), take a breather and explore where your Thanksgiving meal came from with a delectable,...
by Barbaree | Nov 14, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Day, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
To celebrate GIS Day, we want to highlight three things that make us happy: 1. We have launched a new section on our website – MAP PORTALS! Through these portals discover rich free resources of map data in earth sciences, agriculture, English and language arts...
by Barbaree | Nov 13, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog, Super Tuesdays 2012
Explore one of the cooler interactive graphics we\’ve shared in a while! Follow 60 years of voting history. This graph provides an amazing historical perspective on how states have shifted over past elections. Each wavy stripe represents a state. Scroll over...
by Barbaree | Nov 12, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Our thoughts and prayers are still with the East Coast as they face monumental reconstruction from devastating hurricane Sandy. These images compiled by ABC news show the scope of the destruction and can be used to illustrate the theme of change-over-time-and-space to...
by Barbaree | Nov 8, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
With the holidays quickly approaching, we wanted to share a Thanksgiving lesson idea early enough for you to implement it in your classroom. The link to the lesson we\’re highlighting is for an elementary classroom – but use your imagination and think...
by Barbaree | Nov 7, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
We are friends with and big fans of Charlie Fitzpatrick from Esri. Today, we are sharing one of his great tips on how to create maps that can help students recognize and understand data through maps. Be sure to follow the link at the end of this excerpt to read his...
