Activity 5: GIS and Maps

Activity: GIS and Maps

  

GIS and Maps

Global Information Systems and Online Maps
Create a lesson for a Manitoba curriculum subject that incorporates the use of GIS.

Global Information Systems and embedded digital maps. 

Create an exemplar layered map for your lesson.
Use:
Google Earth
Google Maps

Everyday useful, now speed limits on Google Maps Apps 
Got data? http://maps.google.com/help/maps/mapcontent/basemap/

Keyhole Markup Language KML (or KMZ) files 

Create KML files for custom maps http://www.instructables.com/id/Creating-KML-Files-For-Your-Custom-Google-Maps/

Have fun with Geoguesser https://geoguessr.com/

Plan wilderness adventures with UTM Canadian Topographical Map http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php?coord=utm

Snowmobile Trails in Manitoba
Flightradar24
Maps like this make you think. 

Maps of indigenous territories
First Nations Seeker
Native Lands

The geographic location of Names based on Occupation
What was happening at your address 220 million years ago?
Nukemap http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Animaps
Canadian Geological survey

Natural Resources Canada Toporama. Build your own map from Geographic data.
US Geological Survey Free maps. http://equipped.outdoors.org/2014/10/nearly-every-usgs-topo-map-ever-made.html
Google Fusion Tables 2011 Canadian election riding by riding
Electoral Map 2000-2015 http://esrica-tsg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=bd7ddfd489b749cf9beb25b5786a8031
Manitoba Crown Lands
Lots of resources on the web directed to teaching with maps http://serc.carleton.edu/k12/maps.html

Maps as metaphors and organizational schemes.
 Genres Everynoise at Once.