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2011 MapTEACH Capstone
The 2011 MapTEACH Capstone in Manley, Alaska, was a great success. During the week-long event, students learned about their environment through lessons on permafrost, erosion, and place names. Students then applied these lessons by evaluating the local landscape on an overnight boat trip to Old Minto. Upon returning to Manley, each student mapped their experience using the GPS waypoints they collected on their boat trip. They then created their own field trip maps using GIS software. The week culminated with the students publicly presenting their maps to the Manley community and visiting Elders. MapTEACH would like to thank all involved for making this week such a great success.
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2011 Staff School Visits
During March and April of 2011, MapTEACH staff traveled Huslia, Hughes, and Allakaket to work with MapTEACH teachers and students. During these visits, students were taught how to evaluate their local environments and how to use mapping technology. (Read more...)

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MapTEACH Students at professional conferences

November 2010 & February 2011 Alaskan Teacher Workshops at UAF

2010-2011 Teacher Workshops Photo Gallery

What is MapTEACH?
MapTEACH is a hands-on education program for middle and high school students in Alaska focused on understanding the local landscape from multiple perspectives and on learning to make and use computer-based maps of scientific, cultural and personal significance. The project emphasizes the integration of: geoscience, local landscape knowledge, geography and geospatial technology (GPS, GIS and remotely sensed imagery), and it draws upon the combined expertise of teachers, education researchers, remote sensing specialists, geoscience professionals, Native elders, and others with traditions-based knowledge.

Participants work directly with local experts and DGGS geologists to authentically emulate scientific activities at a novice level, using real data in a real-world setting. Students and teachers have access to locally and culturally relevant geospatial IT curriculum facilitated by web-served imagery, geographic information systems data, analysis tools, and field resources.
Malaspina Glacier

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education - Alaska Native Education Program under a grant entitiled: "MapTEACH: Mapping Technology Experiences with Alaska's Community Herirage" (Grant Number: CFDA 84.356A). MapTeach is a collaborative ITEST Project (Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers) originally funded by NSF with the name "Place-Based Geospatial Science Learning and Applications in Rural Alaska".

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MapTEACH began as a collaboration between the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, the University of Alaska Fairbanks,
and the Environmental Remote Sensing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is now a central component of the
University of Alaska Geography Program (UAGP), K-12 education network.

This website is maintained at UAGP.
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The The U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation are federal agencies that support fundamental research and education.

The MapTEACH web site, data, documents and associated information created by MapTEACH are
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Last Updated April 25, 2011

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2011 MapTEACH Capstone

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2011 Staff School Visits