Our World GIS Education
Our World GIS Education was developed to enhance geographic information system (GIS) learning for students of all levels, grade school through college, and to provide teachers with comprehensive and easy-to-use resources for GIS instruction in the classroom. Creatively inspired by the award-winning Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators (MOWGLE), Our World GIS Education offers flexible GIS resources with the latest ESRI software technology for all educators.
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Events
• GIS Day Classroom Materials (http://www.gisday.com/support/materials.html)
  
Introductory Materials
• Exploring Common Ground: The Educational Promise of GIS (http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/download/docs/xcg.pdf)
  The potential benefits of bringing GIS into the pre-college classroom, and the educational characteristics that effective use of GIS relies on.
• Geographic Inquiry: Thinking Geographically [PDF-700 KB (http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/download/docs/geoginquiry.pdf)
  An introduction to an investigative method for engaging in geographic research: Asking geographic questions, acquiring geographic resources, explore geographic data, analyzing geographic information, and acting upon geographic knowledge.
• Geohistorical Inquiry: Connecting Place and Time and Critical Thinking (http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/download/docs/geohistorical.pdf)
  A perspective on linkages between historical and geographic research, similarities in inquiry methods, the importance of local investigations, and a technique for engaging in geohistorical studies.
• GEOTECHing: Mapping and Other Cool Tools for the Classroom (http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/download/docs/geotech.pdf)
  A listing of tools (software and electronic devices) to consider adding to a GIS user's technology tool belt. It also gives descriptions and info on where to find out more.
• GIS Best Practices - Informal Education (http://www.esri.com/library/bestpractices/education.pdf)
  A set of stories about particularly effective and successful users of GIS in educational settings, both formal and informal -- schools, 4-H, and Scouts
• GIS in K-12 Education, rev.2 (http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/download/docs/k12educ2.pdf)
  A primer (first published spring 1995, revised spring 1998) on the basic aspects of using GIS in schools. It includes suggestions on hardware, activities, contacts, and classroom strategies.
• GIS in School Curricula (http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/download/docs/gisincur.pdf)
  A summary of ways in which GIS might be incorporated into thinking about school curricula. Significant attention to educational vision here.
• Intro to Making Maps (http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/download/docs/intrcart.pdf)
  A primer on some of the basic issues of cartographic design.
• Techniques for Using GIS in the Classroom (http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/download/docs/techsuse.pdf)
  A summary of ways in which GIS might be incorporated in different classroom settings. Includes attention to alternatives not commonly considered.
Printed Materials
• ESRI Press (http://gis.esri.com/esripress/display)
  
Scope & Sequence
• Sample University GIS Curricula (http://www.esri.com/industries/university/gisprogs/gisprogs.html)
  
White Papers
• Geography Matters (http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/geomatte.pdf)
  
• Guidelines for Developing a Successful and Sustainable Higher Education GIS Program (http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/higher_ed.pdf)
  
• Metadata and GIS (http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/metadata-and-gis.pdf)
  
• Spatial Data Standards and GIS Interoperability (http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/spatial-data-standards.pdf)