Utah CMaP Projects
2007-2008:
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American Fork Walking Tour
The students will made a walking tour of American Fork. They used GPS coordinates, photos, and wrote brief paragraphs explaining the locations. - Community Emergency Preparedness Plan
This project involves setting up a Community Emergency Preparedness Plan in several neighborhoods in the community. The students will learn through service learning by mapping neighborhoods in the community. Students will gain knowledge of: Global Positioning System (GPS) units for setting waypoints, Arc View- a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) mapping software. With these programs the students will be able to make a variety of maps. -
Community Recycling CMap/GPS Project
This lesson was intended to determine if their was a community interest in recycling in Wasatch county. It involved students conducting surveys of interested citizens, marking their residents on a GPS unit & later downloading & creating a map which plots the data. -
Jordan River Water Quality
4th grade students will study a portion of a Utah wetland habitat by testing the water quality of the Jordan River and presenting their findings using GIS software ArcMap 9.2. -
Pleasant Grove High School Accident Data
Worked with Pleasant Grove City Police Department to locate accidents that have occurred, this past year, within a mile and 1/2 radius of Pleasant Grove High School. Students marked accident waypoints with GPS units and used ArcGIS to map the accidents surrounding the high school. -
Safe Route to School
Students will create a map of the current dangerous routes to school and a safe suggestion. Students will write a persuasive letter to be read at a city council meeting in an attempt to have the route built for the neighborhood that needs it. -
School Ground Map
Teacher and students will work together with community partners to create a map of the school grounds to share with new students and their parents to acquaint them with the school, areas where to play, off limit areas, and the various types of trees. - Trees for Our School
Students will use GPS units to map the school grounds and mark buildings, objects, equipment, trees, parking lots, sprinkler heads…..They will then create a map in ArcMap to determine a good location to plant a new tree(s).
