Instructional Materials

VoyagerScience, 2020 +

VoyagerScience seeks to recast classic Project-Based Learning curricula into the latest collaborative GIS ecosystem – for data collectio, analysis, and presentation of findings. VoyagerScience is actively under development during 2021.

GeoInquiries, 2014 +

The Esri GeoInquiries project, started in 2014, is designed to provide a standards-based, content-forward approach to using GIS to advance subject matter learning in several key K-12 subject areas. GeoInquiries use ArcGIS Online, are free, and licensed under Creative Commons.

ESIC-GIS, 2002-2006

The Extending Scientific Inquiry through Collaborative GIS (ESIC-GIS) project was an NSF-funded teacher professional development and materials development project housed in the Center for STEM Learning at the University of Kansas. The aim of ESIC was to advance the tools and techniques of scientific inquiry in classrooms with the aid of geospatial tools. Historical documentation of ESIC, while available for review, has not been updated to include modern technologies in over a decade.

KanCRN and ESIC-GIS were all constructed around the double V design, encouraging iterative scientific investigation.

KanGIS, 1999-2010

KanGIS was a supplemental project to KanCRN - creating and hosting desktop and web GIS activities that leveraged the KanCRN data sets.

PathFinder Science/KanCRN, 1997-2007

KanCRN (later PathFinder Science, LLC) was an online collaborative network organized around projects engaging students in scientific partnerships and models to study world. Collaborative projects included:

• Stream monitoring

• Amphibian Biomonitoring

• Bird monitoring

• Lichens and SO2

• Global warming

• Tardigrades

• Particulate monitoring

• other projects were added through the collaborative’s history