What Could Be Easier Than Online Lesson Plans?

Visit www.planning.org/resourceszine/Lessons.html to find lesson plans created by the American Planning Association as well as information about other online lesson plans. All the plans developed by APA are public domain, and the APA welcomes you to use them in the classroom or in planning your joint GIS Day/World Town Planning Day event. You will also find links to National Geographic Society's Geography Action! 2003 lesson plans. These lesson plans are centered around this year's theme Habitats: Home Sweet Home, and include K-12 lessons that focus on cities and suburbs covering topics of city design, urban sprawl, and planning.

Need More GIS Day Lessons? Try ArcLessons!

If you're a teacher looking for ideas about what to do with your students, or even a GIS professional searching for activities to present in your child's classroom this year on GIS Day, you have come to the right place. Just visit the ArcLessons Web site where you will be able to query and download a variety of LessonPacks that have been created by teachers for use in the classroom. With content touching on multiple topics including mapping and GIS concepts, social studies, sciences, business, communication, and art, ArcLessons will provide you with 106 different ready-made lessons of varying lengths and complexities to help expose your students to the incredible power of GIS technology. You can browse a list of lessons by category or use the search tools to find lessons in your area of interest. Good luck and happy lesson planning!