This page lists, links to, and briefly describes files developed for the purposes of teaching social studies using geospatial tools (primarily Google Earth and My World GIS). Most, but not all, of these files have been developed at Lehigh University by students in the Teaching and Learning with Geospatial Tools (TLT 368) course taught by Dr. Hammond.
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- Jamie Gustin's Google Earth users guide for social studies teachers.
- Rick Thomas' In Time and Place website and GIS for History eBook.
- Carol Larow's Google Historical Voyages and Events
- Joshua Radinsky's GIS for History project at the University of Illinois - Chicago
- Jung Eun Hong's GIS for Social Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder
- The Virginia Geographic Alliance's GIS Lessons for K-12.
- Bill Ferster's VisualEyes project at the University of Virginia.
- The Teaching American History Project at Portland State – they have an extensive dataset on Northwestern topics, but also strong materials for broadly-applicable topics.
- ThinkQuest's Teaching History with GIS site. Appears to have been inactive for a long time, but has invaluable .shp files available for download.
- Herb Thomson's A Geographic View of World History (available through either NCGE or Carte Diem Press): 32 lesson plans for World History, World Geography, and/or AP courses.
- Not a curricular resource, but: Check out Esri's map of GIS in US K12 contexts. Lots of tabs in there! Do explore.
Our files are currently organized chronologically by topic.
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1791 - 1794: Whiskey Rebellion
ArcGIS.com map created by Tom Hammond, 2018. Note that this is a replica of a project by Jeff Snyder (2010), created as a My World GIS file: Whiskey_Rebellion_ver01.m3vz
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Description: Provides a path from the expedition's starting point to its terminus on the Pacific Coast. Includes images from places and encounters along the way, and makes use of the Rumsey historical map collection to include the engraved map produced from the expedition's sketches.
1804 - 2005: The Louisiana Purchase & Native American Displacement
Extensive Google Earth file – incorporating GIS data and historical map overlays – developed by the Teaching American History project at Portland State, 2008: LA_Purchase_Native_GoogleEarth.kmz
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