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Preliminary Agenda for April Session, April 27-28, 2007
Day 1- Project Learning Tree - Exploring the Places We Live
8:30 AM - 9 AM- RegistrationActivity 1: Sense of Place (Al Stenstrup)
Activity 2: Neighborhood Issues (Lisa Deaton)
Activity 3: Mapping your Community through time (Jeff Kirwan)
Lunch
Activity 4: GreenSpace (Al Stenstrup)
*Environmental Corridors
*Green Space
*Urban Forestry
*1:4000 aerial photography printed on plotters
Activity 5: Environmental Footprint Concept (Lisa Deaton)
Activity 6: Integrating GIS in the Classroom
Day #2: Water Quality and ArcGIS
Overview: An Introduction and The status of the Bay (Barry Fox)
*How to use a data logger and a probe
*Wet Chemistry
Field site for data collection (Barry Fox)
Data analysis and educational resources on water quality (Barry Fox)
What do you know about Water Quality + other educational resources (Barry Fox)
Lunch
Assessing land use over time with ArcGIS ((J. McGee)
*Downloading waypoints to ArcGIS.
Wrap-up Session
Instructors:
Lisa Deaton, Virginia Project Learning TreeBarry Fox, Extension Specialist, Aquatic and Marine Science, Va State Univ.
Jeff Kirwan, Extension Specialist and Associate Professor of Forestry, Va Tech
Mike Knapp, Urban Forester, Fairfax County, VA
John McGee, Geospatial Extension Specialist, Va. Tech
Al Stenstrup, National Project Learning Tree, Washington, D.C.
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