Remember to Enjoy Your GIS Day! Some edu tips and a great Geo poster gift

Don’t forget to celebrate GIS Day… what ever you decide to do, try to help educate someone else about GIS and/or geo technologies. Even if you can’t take in an event or take part in one (search for one here) you can still visit GISday.com and see details of many of the events going on around the Globe. If you have a little geographer in the house (if not maybe you know a couple of kids) you could share some of the following fine K-12 GIS educational resources with them:

• GIS for Schools Teaching With GIS
• ESRI Canada - Schools (K-12)
• GIS Lessons from USGS
• USGS EDU Outreach - how about a GPS lesson?
• Get ArcSchool Reader, a periodic e-newsletter from the ESRI Education team
• National Geographic EDU site
• Canadian Geographic
• A cool EDU game from Ordnance Survey
• Visit the Atlas of Canada with special GAW features
• Play with KidzMap
• NASA cool stuff for 4th graders
• NASA Quest
• LEarn about Alaska and the Arctic
• Explore USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis)
• OS MapZone
• Learn All About Landsat
• USGS EDU Outreach Program
• The GISuser’s Guide to locating and downloading Free USGS data

If anything, simply start hanging some maps on your walls even in your garage, like I do! You might try
USGS Maps or Download free GeoPDF versions from the USGS Store http://store.usgs.gov/locator/

Here’s a fun task, Download, Print and hang a beautiful Landsat Imagery poster of your State - See USGS Earth as Art resource - then be sure to learn a bit about the Landsat history and future of Landsat! For example, I have this fine work of art, courtesy of http://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery/index.php/collection/earth_as_art_2 - the kids love it!

Landsat Image, Colorado

Regardless of what you do, enjoy GIS Day! www.gisday.com

And remember, if you Twitter, use the #gisday hash along with any GISday tweets!