Cultures and Religions of the Himalayan Region

Brenda Helleberg
Burncoat High School
Worcester, MA
Horticulture/ Agriculture

Bees

Map & GIS

Tea

Salt

Maps and GIS

Maps:
The study of a geographic area with use of a map can greatly enhance learning for students. Many classrooms today are without wall maps or globes to use as visual aids and so having students create maps of the regions to be studied helps to familiarize them with the regions location in relation to other places and can help them to gain other important knowledge about a region's topography, rivers, etc.

GIS:
What is GIS? Essentially it is a computer software, hardware and data system that lets you " layer" information about a geographic location. This system lets you visualize, analyze, manipulate and display data about a location "spatially. Although this technology may not be available to you in your school computer lab it is a system that your students can learn about and explore its uses.

Above a smaple of GIS Layering of Data on a greographical site.

Below a map of Nepal with Mt./River/Site information.

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