GI_Forum 2014, Volume 2, pp. 295-298, 2014/06/20
Geospatial Innovation for Society – Conference Proceedings
Several school projects have already proven the value of working with a GIS in the classroom. As a consequence, curricula in several European countries have included GI in education. But few groups/classes so far have used a professional GIS when creating maps. This project describes the results of a workshop that has been running for one-and-a-half years at an upper secondary school (“Gymnasium”) in Munich, Germany. Neither the three teachers leading the workshop nor the students attending the workshop had any active knowledge about GIS when starting the project. At the end of the workshop period the group had devised a complete digital plan for urban development (calculated for ten thousand inhabitants) in an undeveloped area in the north of Munich, using ArcGIS.
