Remote Sensing Learning Module

(A Resource for Teachers)

LESSON PLAN TIED TO NATIONAL STANDARDS

GRADE LEVEL:

6 – 12

GOAL:

Students will gain an understanding of the Choctaw Trail of Tears using remote sensing technology.

OBJECTIVES:

Students will gain a cultural and historical understanding of the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

The students will define remote sensing and understand the basic concepts of remote sensing technologies and their application.

Students will utilize the internet to download remote sensing tools.

Students will download remote sensing and geographic information system software and data as a practical application of remote sensing to the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Students will view :

The geographic area of the Trail of Tears as it exists today

vegetation/agriculture

waterways

roadways

urban areas

 

Computer w/Internet access

Suggested Internet Web sites

 

WEBSITES:

http://www.uga.edu/~toli/removal.html

http://www.choctawnation.com/history/trail_of_tears.htm

http://www.choctawnation.com/front_pg_news.htm

http://www.ajourneypast.com/choctawhistory.html

http://.www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/eduref/educate.html

http://library.advanced.org/16468/hist-d1.htm

http://atlas.lsu.edu

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com

http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/~biehl/MultiSpec/

 

TIME ALLOTED FOR LESSON:

Time allotted will be at the discretion of the instructor.

PROCEDURES:

Instructor will provide a historical and cultural overview of the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Instructor will divide students into groups and visit other web sites about the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Students should initially display data in Black and White. (3 channels blue, red and green). Changing channel order will display different colors. Instructor should thoroughly cover Electro-magnetic residence.

Instructor will then, give a brief definition of remote sensing and download http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/~biehl/MultiSpec/(instructor should test software prior to downloading for class,

Once data is displayed, students will determine vegetation types (such as trees, streams, highways, and croplands).

Students will download http://education.ssc.nasa.gov/ltp/LessonPlans/WhatIs.htm

This lesson plan will provide the students with a better understanding of remote sensing application.

The instructor will ask each group to give their definition of remote sensing and an example.

The instructor will ask students to identify ways of observing land classification of the Choctaw Trail of Tears (such as forest, range land, agriculture, wetlands) and the relationships between water, food , population, and land.

The instructor will then introduce remote sensing computer software and data to identify and compare soil types other related variables (rivers, streams, vegetation, roads, highways, counties ) along the Choctaw Trail of Tears. This introduction should include the role of satellites, GIS (geographic information system)/RS(remote sensing) data for the areas of interest.

Students will use remote sensing data to identify and compare soil types and other related variables (rivers, streams, vegetation, roads, highways, counties, and population) along the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Students will compare and contrast the then and now aspect of the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

Students will successfully complete the assigned project. Each group will demonstrate their understanding of remote sensing during a presentation to the class using remote sensing technologies of the Choctaw Trail of Tears. Instructor will bring up web site www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/eduref/educate.html. Students will check their definitions.

 

LESSON EXTENSIONS:

The instructor may provide other sites in the environment (choose carefully) to study, compare and contrast data. The Terraserver web site is very good source to use to locate some remotely sensed data areas such as schools, cities, land forms, seas, crops, towns, forest, rivers, soil, streams, hospitals wetlands, atmosphere.

Doris Jones
Langston University
Langston, Oklahoma

 

Daniel R.  Zwerg, CET
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Gautier, Mississippi

 

Julius Baham, Jr.
Jackson State University
Jackson, Mississippi

 

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