GAPS: Tangible Landscape Activities

Grade level/course: Grades 9-12

Description

These activities lead students through an introduction to geospatial computation simulation and modeling using a geospatial tangible interface-Tangible Landscape.

Specifically, these activities outline various topics of geohazards, geospatial concepts, modeling, and technologies.

Geospatial Concepts Covered

  • Perspective
  • Contours
  • Buffer
  • Overlay
  • Routing
  • Direction/ bearing
  • Tobler’s Law
  • Distance/ decay
  • Coordinates
  • Symbology
  • Navigation
  • Scale
  • Cartographic principles
  • Spatial Knowledge
  • Spatial Distribution

NC State Researchers

Eric Money

Email: esmoney@ncsu.edu

Garrett Millar

Email: gcmillar@ncsu.edu

Prerequisites

  1. Creativity!

Schedule

Day 1. Water Flow
Day 2. Trails / Route Planning
Day 3. Landforms
Day 4. Channeling
Day 5. Cut & Fill
Day 6. Ponding