Education & Research
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ViewHow GIS and citizen science can unmask Canadian tornadoes
Northern Tornadoes Project blends GIS and citizen science together to enhance detection of unknown tornado occurrences.
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ViewEsri Canada’s K-12 Resource Finder: Discover free resources tied to curriculum
Find ArcGIS Online resources for math, science and history to try with your students in the upcoming school year.
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ViewDebbie Verduga: June’s GIS Ambassador
Debbie Verduga: June’s GIS Ambassador is a Crime Analyst with the Toronto Police Service who teaches K-12 students about GIS
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ViewCelebrate National Indigenous History Month with mapping activities
June is National Indigenous Peoples month. GIS can teach students about where they have lived and the treaties that governed their lives
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ViewA Skills Ontario GIS Competition: Connecting students with real-world GIS
In a Skills Ontario Competition, students use GIS explore the local issue of gun violence.
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ViewScholarship winner Stephanie Potter hopes to empower minority groups
Stephanie Potter’s wins an Esri scholarship for her work mixing social justice and Canada’s great national parks
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ViewMay’s GIS Ambassadors: Scott Humphrey and Hodan Jama from Edmonton
Hodan Jama and Scott Humphrey are showing the possibilities of GIS technology to Edmonton students and teachers
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ViewMeet the winners of Canada’s 2019 Esri Young Scholars Awards
Winners of Esri’s Young Scholars Awards use GIS to provide valuable insights into Canadian environmental issues
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View5 ways to explore climate change using maps
Students better understand the global effect of climate change by seeing the places effected.
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ViewNuzhat Parveen: April's GIS Ambassador
Nuzhat Parveen is our April GIS Ambassador of the month! Read about her work with K-12 students in the Greater Toronto Area.
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ViewUsing Survey123 to engage students in a citizen science geography project
Read about how Grade 9 students used GIS to monitor the health of the Don River, learning about the environment from a different angle.
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ViewDavid Parry: March’s GIS Ambassador
Meet David Parry, our GIS Ambassador of the month! Find out what he’s done to support the use of GIS in K-12 education in Edmonton, Alberta.
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ViewJoana Zyberaj: A student shares her GIS journey
Find out why a former student of East York Collegiate Institute in Toronto was inspired to study GIS after high school and what she plans next.
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ViewGet your students involved in a GIS challenge this year!
Find out what competitions are open to students and how they can participate.
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ViewDr Garfield Giff: February’s GIS Ambassador
Find out how Dr Giff has been promoting the importance of geography and GIS to K-12 schools in the Western Arctic!
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ViewGIS Scholarships give students freedom to learn
Learn more about the Esri Canada GIS Scholarship 2019 program and also check out how one of the 2018 recipients has been making use of his award
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ViewDiscover the latest Esri Canada K-12 ArcGIS Online resources
Explore the latest Esri Canada K-12 ArcGIS Online resources covering topics in math, Indigenous history and introductory GIS that you can use in your teaching today!
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ViewNihal Wijesekera: January’s GIS Ambassador
Find out how Nihal Wijesekera, January’s GIS Ambassador helped to ignite the geography spark at a school in Williams Lake, British Columbia.
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ViewHow students at UNB made National Geomatics Competition a reality
Learn how a group of students in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at UNB organized the first National Geomatics Competition
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ViewJonathan Brown: December’s GIS Ambassador
Find out how Jonathan Brown, a retired community educator has been supporting teachers and students to learn about GIS and open data in Ontario
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