Does using GIS promote children’s understanding of environmental issues?
Impact on Teaching and Learning
Teachers commenting on the impact using these tools had made on Teaching and Learning noted that:
| “The availability of different OS maps enabled the children to accurately draw their routes to school and identify dangerous crossing points” “The children used the OS maps to view the area and find possible localities for situating the new pond” “Comparing past and present maps showed how much Ashford has changed over the last 100 years” “The InfoMapper database allowed us to view traffic calming proposals and designs published children from other schools.” “The children used the link to the BBC Weather web-site to compare and contrast the climate of Kent to that of St Lucia. The information gathered they used to plot rainfall and temperature graphs for each region.” |