Exercises / Projects

The following list is of the GIS – GPS lessons followed by students. Students work on commercially available GIS lessons for schools, as well as custom made exercises developed specifically for the Barrow High School children.

Mapping our World
ESRI text book with ArcView lessons for high school students.

Taking GPS Measurements
Getting started with GPS (GarminMap76 series), recording way points, and importing the data directly into ArcView shape files using Freeware (by Witte, Gens and Prakash)

Plotting GPS points on maps
Introductory GIS exercise on integrating GPS shape files and image data to generate a map (by Witte, Gens and Prakash)

Mapping caribou migration
GIS application of local interest (by Allison Gaylord)

Snow depth and permafrost
GIS application relevant to the Arctic region (by Allison Gaylord)

Seasonal variation in landfast ice
GIS application based on research work of Andy Mahoney (by Prakash, Gens, Witte)