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GEODESY, S.T.A.R.S. and S.P.A.C.E.
Three courses are offered for high
schools, each designed to fulfill a
specific role. Here you can find information about each of
them. Documents linked here are in PDF format, and will require
the Adobe
Reader program, or an equivalent PDF viewer such as Xpdf. Your SPACESTARS representative can tell you more
about these courses, or you can experience them hands-on at one of our workshops!
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GEODESY
(GEOgraphy
Development:
an Educational Series for Youth)
A 10-hour
course for
high school and middle school students which introduces them to the
core concepts of Geographic Information Systems, (GIS). GEODESY
was developed by Berkeley Geo-Research Group with a grant from NASA,
and comes configured in
one of two ways:
Non-Customized:
Students work with data from San Francisco (Table of Contents)or Washington, DC(Table of Contents).
Customized:
Students work with their
own local data. (County, school district, etc.) (Table of Contents)
GEODESY is self-paced, and includes teacher and student manuals, custom
software, and ESRI's ArcView software. Available in stand-alone
"module" format, or as a lab package!
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STARS - Spatial Technology And
Remote Sensing
STARS
is targeted at Certification
for the
workforce. It is a fully-developed "turn-key"
certification program for high schools, colleges and universities, and
is the first and most complete program of its kind. Students will
utilize a locally-customized
geographic
information system (GIS) to learn detailed information about their
local community, and will master the use of ArcView tools. At the
end of the curriculum an exam is administered and a portfolio submitted
for certification approval. Instructors require no prior
knowledge of GIS to teach this course; only basic computer
skills. STARS is comprised of three courses:
This is the STARS course layout:
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SPACE - Spatial Projects
And Community Exchange
SPACE
is a series of community-based GIS/RS application courses for high
schools. The first quarter of SPACE is a classroom-delivered
program, and then the student chooses a self-paced community-based
project to work on for the rest of the year. Choices for the
2004-2005 school year include :
Public
Health, Precision Agriculture, and Business courses are projected for
the 2005-2006 school year.
Like
STARS, SPACE is customized for the schools's local community/county.
The SPACE
Series:
Contact
your regional SPACESTARS
representative for further information about these programs,
or sign up to
attend the next free
introductory workshop.
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606 visitors since January 2004
SPACESTARS is a joint project of Digital Quest
and Berkeley Geo-Research Group.
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