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High
School Projects
Projects are
available on CD-ROM, either Mac or PC format. Send e-mail to: mell@cnr.colostate.edu
THE
BIG THOMPSON WATERSHED PROJECT (2000)
Level: Grade 10-11
Purpose: To
provide students with an understanding of: 1) spatial analysis and water
quality along the Big Thompson River, 2) the relationship between water
quality and population density, and 3) the relationship between water quality
and land use. Sample water and test it (SWAT) water quality data
collected by the Thompson Valley High School students will be utilized
in this project.
GIS CONCEPTS USED IN
THE BIG THOMPSON WATERSHED PROJECT (2000)
Level: Grade 10-11
Purpose: The
Big Thompson Watershed Forum is a community-based watershed monitoring
program whose focus is to evaluate and improve watershed health.
This project provides a suite of lessons that will serve to familarize
students with some of the data collected from the Big Thompson Watershed
and to explore the relationships between water quality, fish populations,
recreation, and urban areas.
A
PERSPECTIVE ON GLOBAL AIDS (2000)
Level: Grade
10
Purpose: The primary
goal of this project is for students to gain an appreciation and understanding
of the global issue of HIV/AIDS as well as different factors affecting
the disease in various regions of the globe. The students will learn concepts
from the fields of Medical Geography, Epidemeology, and Statistics.
World Health indicators will be used to measure "Global Health" and the
facts surrounding the AIDS epidemic. Spatial techniques will be used to
calculate population dynamics and mortality, and to study the relationship
between world health indicators and the prevalence and incidence of the
AIDS virus. The students will use data containing information about
the continents of Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa.
AFRICAN
POPULATION PROJECT (2000)
Level: Grade 10
Purpose: This project
is an interactive geography lesson that focuses on some basic concepts
concerning total population, population density, population growth rates,
and population distribution.
MOUNTAINOUS
REGIONS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE GLOBE: A COMPARISON OF COLORADO AND NEPAL
(2000)
Level: Grade 10
Purpose: The
mountains of Colorado and Nepal are attractive to travelers for many of
the same reasons. In this project, students will use GIS to perform
a variety of spatial analyses on features of both the state of Colorado
and the country of Nepal. GIS software will be introduced, and students
will be guided through several exercises in which, they will compare and
contrast a variety of geographic characteristics of the two regions.
MALARIA
AND GEOGRAPHY (2000)
Level: Grade 10
Purpose: This
project uses the epidemiology of malaria to inform students about a disease
with world-wide distribution and impact. Basic ArcView commands,
information about vectored diseases, and some background on malaria are
explored.
AFRICA
LAND-USE PROJECT (2000)
Level: Grade 10
Purpose: ArcView
GIS software will be used to present concepts in geography. The Africa
land-use theme makes the lessons interesting and exciting!
COLORADO
RESERVOIRS PROJECT (1999)
Level: Grade
9-10
Purpose: These
exercises are designed to help high school students develop an appreciation
of spatial information from a local real world situation using GIS data
layers representing the geology, hydrology, wildlife biology, major transportation,
and human settlement patterns of northern Colorado to select the most suitable
site for a proposed water reservoir, and to examine potential impacts of
the reservoir.
BUILDING
AN AFRICAN HIGHWAY 1 (1998)
Level: Grade
10-12
Purpose: In
this project, students will use GIS concepts and a specified set of constraints
to construct a hypothetical highway from Tripoli, Libya to Capetown, South
Africa.
BUILDING
AN AFRICAN HIGHWAY 2 (1999)
Level: Grade
10-12
Purpose: In
this project, students will use GIS concepts and a specified set of constraints
to construct a hypothetical highway from Tripoli, Libya to Capetown, South
Africa. This is an extension of the previous year's project.
NATURAL
HAZARDS IN AFRICA (1998)
Level: High
School
Purpose: The
goal of this module is to familiarize students with the types of natural
hazards that exist in Africa through the use of the ArcView Geographic
Information System. Data on global earthquakes and volcanoes are presented.
Additional data specifically for Africa on recent volcanoes, tsunami events,
and fires in Africa are also provided. Data containing information on city
populations, population densities, and landcover types are also examined
in conjunction with the natural hazards data. The students will use the
combination of data layers to assess the risk from natural hazards that
exists to cities and countries in Africa.
COLORADO
WILDLIFE GIS EDUCATIONAL PROJECT (1998)
Level: High
School
Purpose: This
project is designed to provide high school students with a better understanding
of the distribution of imperiled species in Colorado and how human development
has affected these distributions. This project serves as both an introduction
to ARCVIEW and an exposure to wildlife species issues and concepts.
LAND
USE PLANNING AND GROWTH IN FORT COLLINS: PATTERNS AND PROCESSES (1998)
Level: High
School
Purpose: This
project will help foster and understanding of how the urban landscape of
Fort Collins is tightly bound to the dictates of planning committees. Furthermore,
by comparing the urban landscape of Fort Collins with that of Boulder,
you will see how other factors, such as affluence and community vision,
influence planning policies and, thus, urban development patterns.
A
FORAGE AVAILABILITY MODEL FOR THE GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM (1999)
Level: Grade
10-12
Purpose: This
project covers concepts regarding wildlife and the relationship between
forage and seasonal variations in snowpack for Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming.
COLORADO
WATER USE (1999)
Level: Grade
12
Purpose: This
project is designed to help high school students understand the issues
surrounding water usage in Colorado by using a geographic information system
(GIS). Students will use ARCVIEW software as a geographic tool to explore
above and below ground water usage as well as the Big Thompson Water Project.
JAPAN
AND THE RING OF FIRE (1999)
Level: Grade
K-12
Purpose: The
students will use ArcView to address a series of questions relating to
the the geography of Japan. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding
how the economic, social, and political systems of Japan are influenced
by its physical environment.
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