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The 4th annual GIS Day fieldtrip took place on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at the Air Mobility Command Museum in Dover, Delaware.

GIS Day is an international event held on Wednesday of National Geography Awareness Week.
GIS Day started in 1987, as part of the National Geographic’s Geography Week, as a way to expose society to the tools and opportunities of GIS. The Delaware Geographic Data Committee is a cooperative effort among all levels of government, the academic sector, and the private sector, to build a Delaware GIS Community and improve the coordination of the use of GIS tools and spatial data in Delaware, so for several years the State of Delaware has participated in celebrating GIS Day.

For the fourth year, the Delaware GIS Day Event Committee offered to selected 5th grade students a field trip to the Dover Air Command Mobility Museum. The event was designed to support Delaware curriculum requirements for fifth-grade students who are learning about geography, cartography and the world around us.

Students experienced:

• GIS Scavenger Hunt
• Delasoft Billboard
• Compass vs GPS
• Discovery map of a local community by the Delaware Geographic Alliance
• Tracing different layers over aerial photography
• City of Dover - Emergency Services
• City of Dover - What is GIS?
• Museum Tour
• Mobile Command Unit
• Spot Alien Invaders in DE
• Flight simulation - which uses digital mapping to teach new pilots
• Entering into the world itself, a 20-foot diameter Earth Balloon to learn something special about each continent
• Map Jeopardy
• A hands on chance to use GIS to discover which mystery animal was going to be placed in a zoo

For more information on past years’ GIS Day success, please visit here.

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