🗺️ Introduction: Lesson Plans for Your Classroom
Welcome to a hands-on, inquiry-driven journey into the world of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial thinking, and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This course empowers teachers to bring geospatial tools, sustainability challenges, and interdisciplinary problem-solving directly into the classroom through ready-to-use lesson plans, real-world projects, and challenge-based activities.
You will explore and apply innovative teaching frameworks such as GeoInquiries, the GOSTEAM Inquiry-Based Approach, and Living Lab scenarios that turn your classroom, and your school, into an active space for investigation, experimentation, and social impact.
Through this course:
✅ You’ll explore standard-based GeoInquiries aligned with Earth Science, Environmental Science, Human Geography, and Upper Elementary levels
✅ You’ll engage with the GOSTEAM inquiry-based approach, using GPS, Digital Elevation Models, hydrological tools, and site-selection for offshore wind farms
✅ You’ll discover project and challenge-based learning activities, such as transforming cities with Nature-based Solutions
✅ You’ll dive into the Living Lab methodology and see how your school can become a GEO-Lab for innovation and sustainability
✅ You’ll apply GIS, Remote Sensing, and geospatial analysis to investigate real-world environmental and societal problems
✅ You’ll be equipped with lesson-ready tools and templates that promote critical thinking, student agency, and curriculum integration
Whether you’re teaching geography, science, STEM, or cross-curricular themes, this course will help you inspire your students to think globally, act locally, and solve complex sustainability issues with the power of geospatial thinking.
Let’s get started! 🌍📚🛰️
