[OSGeo-Edu] Material for Elementary and Secondary Schools

[Charlie Schweik]

Does someone interested in K-12 want to compile what we've learned in
this dialog and put it on the wiki somewhere? 

Should we start a Elementary-Secondary school thread as a sub-project on
our current to do page? Any interested to take a subcommittee leadership
role here?

CHarlie

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 13:54 +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Paul, all,
> 
> for those able to read/guess German, here an initiative:
> http://www.gis-macht-schule.de/
> (a project of the German GRASS/FOSSGIS association)
> 
> Best,
> Markus
> 
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Paul Flemming <pflemming at dcsltd.ca> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am looking at developing material to introduce GIS and Mapping for
> > Students in Elementary and Secondary schools.  One of the things I have
> > noticed in the material that has been developed is that it is geared more
> > for university and college students.  One of the areas that needs to be
> > developed is teaching materials for elementary and secondary school
> > teachers.  In the future there is going to be a lack of people in the GIS
> > community with the proper background in mapping and GIS.  If we introduce
> > these concepts at an earlier age then a greater interest in this technology
> > will develop in later years.  If anyone has any suggestions or comments
> > please speak up.
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul Flemming
> >  CAD/GIS/IT Manager
> >
> >
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