The Virginia Geographic Alliance is excited to offer the online, 8-hour professional development workshop, #YouCanMapThat: Using GIS to Enhance the Classroom.  It is open to grades K-12 faculty and pre-service teachers and is limited to 35 participants.  Register here

Details:

Location:  Online via Zoom

Dates:   Thursday June 20th and Friday June 21 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM 

Please share with your colleagues and/or enroll in the workshop yourself. 

#YouCanMapThat! is a FREE Online Instructor-led professional development program that will teach you to:

• Access and utilize 100+ classroom ready 15-Minute GeoInquiries for US History, Human Geography, World History, US Government, Mathematics, Language Arts, and Earth Science

• Use web maps as a bell-ringer, a lesson plan, and/or a classroom discussion tool

• Create customized Web Maps that embed text, primary source Images, YouTube videos, and much more.  To access a sample map on the Louisiana Purchase go to: http://arcg.is/1xvC7Pg 

• Register your school for a free site-license for Esri’s ArcGIS Online software 

Other benefits include:

• 8 Continuing Education/Recertification Points

• free supplemental lesson plans

• access to an online Professional Learning Community

• $35,00 Amazon Gift Card for successfully participating in the workshop*.

REGISTRATION IS ON A FIRST COME BASIS & IS LIMITED TO 30 PARTICIPANTS.

Register by 11:59 PM June 10, 2024 (or when class fills)

*To receive payment participants will need to complete and submit two assignments, an exit survey, and an acknowledgement of payment form.