GIS for Teens and Problem Solving _ Week#5

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Today's podcast addresses how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can help high school students find targeted areas of project analysis. GIS can help learners understand the world around them. It helps the educators and their audience promotes integrated learning across the board. GIS is not only used to teach environmental impact but, also gears towards historical findings of lost artifacts that need to be digitized and store in a digital, secure format. It is also used in Economics and organizations across the globe.

If a student is working on a project, relating to the geographical location of different earth formation, such as locating the sand dunes in the Upper Peninsular (UP) of Michigan geographically, using a GIS tool called ArcMap application would help greatly in their findings.

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