Earth Day 2023: Explore our world with ArcGIS

April 21, 2023

Angela Alexander

In honour of Earth Day on April 22^nd, integrate maps and apps that explore our amazing planet. In this blog post, you will discover ArcGIS resources to use with your students and share with your colleagues.

This year’s Earth Day theme is “Invest in our Planet.” ArcGIS is a great tool to dive into this theme as it can help us to understand, analyse, visualize and make decisions about our world. This can be at a local, regional, national or global level.

An image of a beautiful satellite image of the earth.

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

Take a look at the resources we put together for this year’s theme.

Lessons

How Green is your Neighbourhood
In this lesson, you will explore your neighbourhood/school block using a map to discover negative and positive contributors to climate change.

GIS for Wildlife Conservation
In this Career Path Series on GIS for Wildlife Conservation, you will get a snapshot of how GIS is used to make informed decisions about protecting wildlife.

A screenshot showing a biodiversity map of Canada.

Discover Canada's biodiversity with the GIS for Wildlife Conservation lesson.

Marine Debris in the Pacific Ocean
Gain a deeper understanding of ocean currents, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and the impact of marine debris on humans and ocean ecosystems.

Story Maps and Apps

ArcGIS Living Atlas Indicators of the Planet

ArcGIS Living Atlas Indicators of the Planet provides a single point for finding some of the most timely information covering a variety of environmental and social topics. Each GeoCard updates using the Live Feeds methodology and provides additional resources such as links to contributors, maps, StoryMaps, and Learn ArcGIS lessons.

Celebrate Earth Day Every Day
This Esri collection of story maps covers topics related to our planet.

A screenshot showing thumbnails of story maps.