Books

Find a wealth of information about GIS for education in these books.

GIS in Education Curriculum

• Our World GIS Education
• Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum
• Fun with GPS
• Digital Geography: Geospatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom
• GIS in the Classroom: Using GIS in Social Studies and Environmental Science
• GIS: A Sourcebook for Schools
• Learning and Teaching with Maps

Teaching GIS Skills

• GIS Tutorial
• Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop
• GIS Tutorial II
• ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1
• ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2
• GIS for Dummies

Community Mapping

• Making Community Connections
• Community Geography Teacher's Guide
• Community Geography: GIS in Action
• Children Map the World
• Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment
• Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years
• Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities
• Where We Live: A Citizen's Guide to Conducting a Community Environmental Inventory

Earth Science

• Exploring the Dynamic Earth: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences
• Exploring the Ocean Environments: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences
• Exploring Tropical Cyclones: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences
• Exploring Water Resources: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences

GIS Resources

• A to Z: An Illustrated Dictionary of GIS
• Designing Better Maps
  —The second volume from Cindy Brewer, author of Designed Maps.
• Integrating GIS and the Global Positioning System
• Placing History
  —The first volume from Anne Knowles, author of Past Time, Past Place.