Innovative Classrooms: Mapping Your Way

David Richardson and Susan Tyree

What Innovative Classrooms Look Like

• Authentic assessment• Project-based learning• Technology

innovations• School to career

opportunities

Excerpted from Edutopia Online

http://www.glef.org/

Performance Assessment

• “Measure what kids can do with knowledge, not how many right answers they can give to questions.” Seymour Papert

Project Based Learning

• “Students work together in groups to solve challenging problems that are authentic, curriculum-based, and often interdisciplinary.” Gwen Solomon, Technology and Learning

• The teacher is learning at the same time as the students and with the students

Technology Innovation

We have given students a research tool and databases used by scientists, analysts, and planners in the field.

School to Work

482 Jobs Posted on Monster.com in 7 days in Florida.

What Innovative Classrooms Feel Like

What students do is meaningful

Students are engaged and

motivated

Students take control of their learning

Students have a sense of accomplishment and pride in their finished product

What is GIS?

• GIS  is a computer software that allows you to store, analyze and display data LINKED TOGETHER GEOGRAPHICALLY.

• With this program you can manage information of any kind according to where it is located.

Data Can Be Queried

The datatables can be queried and the results displayed geographically.

Themes

• The data is layered together in themes.

• Each theme of data has its own database of attributes attached.

• There are three types of themes:  polygons, lines, and points. 

We can project Sugarloaf Key

Adding GPS Data

• Points can be collected with GPS unit.

• These points can be downloaded into the GIS program.

Data Added To GIS as a Table

Table Data Added to View

Publish to the Web

• Research and data can be combined to publish on the web for authentic assessment of student projects.– Key Largo School– Sugarloaf School

• Where to publish– School district web sites– Web World Wonders

Resources

David Richardson

richardsond@monroe.k12.fl.us

http://www.monroe.k12.fl.us/sls/

Sugarloaf School

255 Crane Blvd.

Summerland Key, FL 33042

Telephone: (305)-745-3282          Fax:(305)-745-2019 

Florida Geographic Alliance

Dr. Laurie Molina

lmolina@admin.fsu.edu

http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/

Susan Tyree

tyrees@monroe.k12.fl.us

http://www.keylargoschool.com

Key Largo School

104801 Overseas Highway

Key Largo, FL 33037

Telephone (305)-453-1255

Fax: 305-453-1248