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Mapping Water Quality- Using GPS, GIS and probeware to lead a Meaningful Bay Experience
Part 1- October 27-28, 2005:
Day 1- GPS basics and integrating GPS into an MBE; topo mapsDay 2- Mapping impervious surfaces and tree cover; real world stuff
Part 2- April 27-28, 2006
Day 1- GIS and mapping land use changeDay 2- Status of Chesapeake, probeware and water quality indicators
Agenda for April Session
Day 1- April 27
8:30 AM - 9 AM- Registration (Space Grant)9:00 - 11:00 AM- Places We Live (Al and Jeff)
Activity 1- Sense of Place
Activity 2- Neighborhood Issues
Activity 3- Mapping Your Community Through Time
11- 12 Introduction to GIS (John, Lisa and Chris)
ArcView 9.1
12 Noon- Lunch
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM- Integrating GIS into the classroom (John, Chris, Nick)
Importing data layers- historic aerial photos, census data, topography
Testing hypotheses about tree cover using GIS
Independent variables: income, historic land use, age of school, others
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM- Exploring Environmental Issues (Al and Jeff)
Activity 6- View of the future
Day 2- April 28
8:30 AM Meet at Portsmouth City Park, 140 City Park Ave.Status of Chesapeake Bay (Jill)
Introduction to probeware and water quality measurements (Barry)
11 AM- 12 Noon- Return to IC Norcom, using dataloggers and software (Barry)
12 Noon- lunch
1- 3:00 PM Mapping water quality on a GIS (John, Chris, Nick)
3 - 4:00 PM What do you know about water quality? (Barry)
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM- Wrap up, evaluation
Instructors:
Jill Bieri, Programs Coordinator, NOAA Chesapeake BayChris Cater, Education Programs Manager, Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Barry Fox, Extension Specialist, Aquatic and Marine Science, Va State Univ.
Traci Gilland, Extension Agent, City of Portsmouth
Jeff Kirwan, Extension Specialist and Associate Professor of Forestry, Va Tech
John McGee, Geospatial Extension Specialist, Va. Tech
Al Stenstrup, National Project Learning Tree, Washington, D.C.
Lisa McCray, OverSpace Teacher, Salem Public Schools (retired)
Location
I.C. Norcom High School, PortsmouthScience Learning Standards to be Adressed
1. Students will plan and conduct investigations in which computers, probeware and GPS are used. (ES.1)2. Students will investigate and understand how to read maps, globes, models, charts and imagery. (ES.3)
3. Students will understand economic and public policy issues concerning Chesapeake Bay (ES.11)
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