This site has curriculum and accompanying data files ready for download!

James Madison University STEM Geospatial Technology
http://www.isat.jmu.edu/stem/curriculum.html

Even better, they provide versions for both AEJEE and the full ArcGIS software.. you choose.

Labels: AEJEE, Curriculum, GIS Activities, GIS Data, Math, STEM

Do you have ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE) installed on your computer? Do you have GPS waypoints that you want to add to an AEJEE map project?

See the attached file for the steps to manually transfer GPS waypoints to AEJEE.

TIP: Don't forget the negative symbol for the Hawaii longitude coordinate... we are West of the Prime Meridian! (-x, y = longitude,latitude)

7_GPStoGIS_AEJEE_handout.pdf

Labels: AEJEE, Curriculum, GIS Activities, GPS, STEM

The fabulous education team at ESRI develops lessons for educators that work with AEJEE and other ESRI GIS software. ArcLessons are available for download AND they come with all necessary AEJEE axl files, data layers, and lesson plans in a 'zip' file.



Try out this beginner level social studies lesson as an example:
2008 Presidential Election
http://gis.esri.com/industries/education/arclessons/search_results.cfm?id=388

Labels: AEJEE, ArcLesson, GIS Activities

The fabulous education team at ESRI develops lessons for educators that work with AEJEE and other ESRI GIS software. ArcLessons are available for download AND they come with all necessary AEJEE axl files, data layers, and lesson plans in a 'zip' file.

Try out this beginner level social studies lesson as an example:
2008 Presidential Election
http://gis.esri.com/industries/education/arclessons/search_results.cfm?id=388

Labels: AEJEE, ArcLesson, GIS Activities

James Madison University Center for STEM Education and Outreach have announced the publication of the Rural STEM GIS activity collection for AEJEE and ArcGIS.  This collection of 12 activities (authored by Barbaree Ash Duke, edited by me and classroom tested by teachers around the country) focuses on middle school science and social studies.  Each activity comes with student instructions and worksheet, teacher notes, an answer key and all relevant data.  The activities are referenced to relevant national standards.  Each activity can also be easily modified for younger or older students.  Each activity can be used by itself or in conjunction with one or more of the other activities.  We hope teachers in a variety of settings will find these activities of use.

Labels: AEJEE, GIS Activities, STEM

Need Help finding Hawaii Data? --

The first two places you might want to look for data layers (shape files, etc) are:

Hawaii Statewide GIS Program
http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/gis

Hawaii Data Clearinghouse
http://hawaii.wr.usgs.gov

If you cannot find what you need, email us or comment on this post. Let us know what type of data you are looking for!

Labels: AEJEE, GIS Data, Hawaii Data