External and Additional Resources: Trees
Arcview/GIS Tutorials| Tree Indentification and Info | Lesson Plans/Ideas | Data/Maps
ArcView Resources
Course on ArcView: http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~abe526/av33/process.htm
This page has a set of .wmv movies to help your learn arcview. This site focuses on ArcView 3.3. Good site if you want to watch someone walk through how to use some of ArcView features.
GIS Lounge Tutorials: http://gislounge.com/ll/tutorialarcview.shtml
Provides some basic tutorials on getting started with Arcview. This tutorials are all printbased.
ESRI: http://www.esri.com
This is the company that makes Arcview. You can download a trial version of Arcview and download Arcviewer which will allow to view most of the files in our urban tree project but will not allow you to edit them.
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ArcView Lessons from ESRI: http://gis.esri.com/industries/education/arclessons/arclessons.cfm
ArcLessons is a resource for you to share lessons for using GIS in the classroom. You can browse a list of lessons by category or use the search tools to find lessons in your area of interest.
Pensylvania Spatial Acess Arc View Tutorial
These exercises are based on ESRI's ArcView software, the basic concepts and functions described in these lessons are applicable to other GIS software packages as well.
USGS tutorial regarding GIS and Arcview
This website has a discussion regarding what GIS is and how to use the basic features of ArcView.
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Data
Mass GIS
This site is housed by the Massachusetts state government and has data and satellite images that can be downloaded for the entire state of Massachusetts.
Google Earth
Free product from Google that allows you to go zooming through your neighboorhood. You need to download the software and install it on your own computer.
GIS data depot
This page contains data sets that have been accumulated by the GIS data depot. These data sets can be downloaded and used in your own projects. Data includes data sets from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and other national data sets.
Collins Software Free GIS data
This site has free gis data by region. You can download data by state or by region of the world.
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Tree Indentification and Other Information about trees
What tree is that?
This is a html based tree indentification guide. Provides a simple way to indentify trees in your area.
Arbor Day Tree ID
This page has a flash animation that can help you indentify a particular tree. This flash animation is similar to the one that is a part of our tree curriculum materials, however, this one does not contain as much detail.
Urban Forestry Portal
This site is a clearinghouse of resources associated with urban forestry. You will find a Tree indentification guide and generally a list of useful resources.
E-nature
This site has several indentification guides included trees. You can search for a particular area of the country to help narrow your search.
Leaf Types
This site is picture intensive and can walk through tree indentification through a focus on the type and shape of the leaves on a particular tree.
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Classroom Based Lessons
ArcLessons
ArcLessons is a resource for you to share LessonPacks for using GIS in the classroom. You can browse a list of lessons by category or use the search tools to find lessons in your area of interest. You also can contribute your LessonPacks to ArcLessons for other educators to use.
Community Atlas
ESRI's U.S. Community Atlas is a project in which teachers and students across the country define the nature of "their community" and post descriptions and maps about it. These presentations are combined on the web server and can be searched by characteristic and explored for similarities and differences.
GIS Day
Find resources to help you celebrate this special day with your students! GIS Day is scheduled for November.
The Learning Web
The Learning Web is a portion of the USGS website dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning. Visit often and explore things on, in, around, and about the Earth such as plants and animals, land, water, and maps.
Working with Maps
The Learning Web - Map lessons and activities for K-12 grades.
USGS - GIS in Education
Explore this website for a large collection of resources and lesson plans for GIS and GPS topics.
IAGT.com Lesson Plans & Resources
Visit this site for an assortment of interesting lesson ideas for remote sensing, GIS, and GPS.
From A Distance
Explore this site from NASA to find lesson plans and resources to help your students learn more about remote sensing, GIS, and GPS.