Application task.
Students will complete an application task for storm sewer city
planning in an unsurveyed part of Southside Bethlehem.
Warm up:
1. Instruct students to launch AEJEE and load the following shape
files:
Northampton and Lehigh County Roads, Rivers, Landmarks shape file, and student
collected storm sewer data points.
2. Instruct students to locate the storm sewers on their GIS map that they gathered during the outside field data collection days. Instruct students to use the Identify tool to identify the street names of their collected storm sewer data points.
Main activity:
1. Set the context for the application task:
South Bethlehem has horrible flooding problems when it rains. This is a serious
problem. On rainy days, kids are walking into the 48 Hour Video store with wet
socks and shoes to get their video games. The water also piles up in front of
“The Cup” and nobody wants to walk through big puddles to get ice
cream. Business is bad on the South Side on rainy days.
2. Tell students they will use GIS to explore storm sewer patterns to address this issue and then use their data analysis findings to help the city of Bethlehem to redevelop a nearby part of South Bethlehem to include 8 new businesses. The new businesses include a new indoor paint ball and laser tag building, a bowling alley, a video gaming center, an all-ages dance hall, and 4 new restaurants.
3. Distribute the handout Storm Sewer Planning Task to each student. Instruct students to complete the task.
4. After all maps are collected, use an LCD projector to display the planning task map to the front of the room. Have students describe where they placed their sewers. Prompt students to articulate their reasoning for their planning decisions.
Materials needed:
Handout: Storm Sewer Planning Task
[Sewer_planning_task.doc]
GIS shape files: Northampton Roads, Lehigh
County Roads, Rivers, Landmarks
shape file, and student collected storm sewer data points.
Assessment Information:
Storm Sewer Planning Task Rubric
[Planning_task_rubric.pdf]
Instructional Sequence | GIS Storm Sewers Unit
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