Transcript What is GIS? What is GIS?A geographical information system (GIS) has the ability to store, retrieve, manipulate and analyse a range of.

What is GIS?
What is GIS?A geographical information system (GIS) has the
ability to store, retrieve, manipulate and analyse a range of spatially
related data.
GIS handles data quickly and efficiently, enabling users to produce
cartographic work that may have taken many hours to complete
using traditional, manual, techniques.
Amazing GIS fact: “There are more cartographers employed in
Britain today than at any other time in recorded history”.
The Growing importance of GIS
KS3
The new National Curriculum programme of study has a clearer focus on
developing the skills, and pays particularly attention to the development of map
skills – both making and interpreting, as this is a key skill not thoroughly covered
in any other area of the curriculum.
The use of ICT remains central, with a specific commitment made for the first
time to ensuring students have experienced and used GIS programmes.
The Growing importance of GIS
These are the essential skills and processes in geography that pupils need to
learn to make progress.
2.1 Geographical enquiry
Pupils should be able to:
• collect, record and display information
• find creative ways of using and applying geographical skills and understanding
to create new interpretations of place and space
2.3 Graphicacy and visual literacy
Pupils should be able to:
• use atlases maps at a range of scales, photographs, satellite images
• construct maps and plans at a variety of scales, using graphical techniques to
present evidence.
4. Curriculum opportunities
Pupils should be able to:
d. use varied resources, including maps, visual media and geographical
information systems
f. make links between geography and other subjects, including citizenship and
ICT.
The Growing importance of GIS
KS4
The majority of the new specifications being implemented from this September
make specific reference to GIS. What with the growing popularity of themed
studied it is unlikely that any Geography student from 2009 will complete their
GCSE course without having significant experience of GIS applications.
Fieldwork can be enhanced using GIS:
AQA mark schemes for fieldwork states that to achieve a level 3 a candidate
must ‘use accurately a range of complex techniques, some of which are ICT
based, to develop and present information’.
Add photos or pictures
to make case studies
more interesting
Use planning overlays or
historical maps to
illustrate urban change