New Spatial Thinking - GIS Lessons on ArcLessons

Submitted by Joseph Kerski on 11 August 2009 - 1:59pm

New lessons I have posted on ArcLessons include Water Use Analysis with GIS, analyzing census data, geocoding, routing, and using web-GIS in the classroom. 

http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/lesson.cfm?id=442

In this lesson, you will understand (1) how to access and format data from the USA County database from the US Census Bureau within a GIS environment; (2) how to analyze these data, specifically about water and by extension, other variables—using GIS and spatial statistics techniques, including regression analysis, hotspot analysis, and scatterplot matrices.

Analyzing Census Data

http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/lesson.cfm?id=439

Access, format, and use US Census data in a variety of ways--from ArcGIS Online, from ESRI Data and Maps DVDs, from the ESRI Data Library, from the US Census Bureau's American Fact Finder, and from the American Community Survey.

Using ArcGIS Online Geocoding Services to Map and Analyze Points http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/lesson.cfm?id=440

This lesson and data set are intended to be used in ArcGIS 9.3 and higher from ESRI to illustrate how to use ArcGIS Online geocoding services to locate points by address in educational applications.

 Using ArcGIS Online Routing Services to Plan and Analyze Routes

http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/lesson.cfm?id=441

This lesson and data set are intended to be used in ArcGIS 9.3 and higher to illustrate how to use ArcGIS Online routing services to create routes for educational applications. The lesson asks students to select the best route for a tour bus to travel several times a day from the Upper West Side of New York City to Battery Park, stopping at several tourist sites along the way, and return. The second part of the lesson asks students to determine the best route for a truck to travel weekly from the East Coast of the USA to Boise, Idaho, picking up several shipments along the way. In each part of the lesson, "best" route is presented both as the quickest and also the shortest.

Using Web-GIS in the Classroom

http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/lesson.cfm?id=438

Grapple with a wide range of phenomena from language to natural hazards, from regional to global scale, using a variety of different tools on the web. You will use web-GIS (1) using a web browser, (2) by streaming web-mapping data into a desktop GIS (ArcGIS), and (3) download and analyze data from the web using a desktop GIS (ArcGIS).