Focusing on GIS and GPS technology, Making Community Connections is designed to bring teams of teachers and students together with community members to study resources of interest and importance to the community. The materials in the book have been constructed to provide a solid foundation and flexible framework for original projects created and developed by students, their teachers, and their communities, allowing explorations and investigations of places and problems of interest and concern to them. Students are shown how to gather and examine existing information, discover new facts through field investigation, map the resource using GIS/GPS tools, and interact with the community. This unique program culminates in students holding a public forum to present a body of research that can be used in community planning.

The Orton Family Foundation works with people in small communities, helping to steer and embrace growth and change while enhancing the cultural, social, environmental and economic qualities that are the essence of what makes a place a valued home to its citizens. The Foundation promotes inclusive, proactive decision-making and land use planning by offering guidance, tools, research, capital and other support to citizens and leaders.

ISBN: 9781589480711    2003   196 pages   $19.95

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Click the button below to order Making Community Connections: Connie L. Knapp and The Orton Family Foundation Community Mapping Program online from ESRI's GIS Bookstore, or call 1-800-447-9778. If ordering from outside the U.S., see ordering options.