From heinemae@epndce.nci.nih.gov Wed Jan 3 10:00:27 2001 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id KAA09840 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:00:24 -0800 Received: from ims.hub.nih.gov (ims.hub.nih.gov [128.231.90.111]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA18360 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:00:22 -0800 Received: by ims.hub.nih.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:00:11 -0500 Message-ID: <76D006EB9224D411B12B0008C7C59D964C367C@nihexchange9.nih.gov> From: "Heineman, Ellen (NCI)" To: "'waphgis@u.washington.edu'" Subject: Educational website Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:00:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Just ran across a fascinating website that might be of interest to folks in GIS, geography, cartography and education. It's the Adventures of Echo the Bat (http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html). From it's "About IMAGERS...": "This project is a collaborative project between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and USGS Biological Resources Division..." "The Adventure of Echo the Bat is a program with both online and classroom components. It teaches "understanding light" and the "electromagnetic spectrum" as a foundation for Remote Sensing. The unit on Remote Sensing includes the Adventure of Echo the Bat which is an interactive web site allowing students to follow Echo the Bat as he migrates through Arizona. The adventure offers a directed and investigative approach to how land features look from space, what the colors mean in a landsat image, and an introduction to identifying habitats in a false color landsat image..." "The objectives are to teach fundamental concepts behind Remote Sensing and NatureMapping to students in Grades 5-8... The ADVENTURE OF ECHO THE BAT is an interactive adventure which brings together content relating to Biodiversity, Ecology, Remote Sensing, and the Electromagnetic Spectrum with supporting classroom activities..." There's a program for K-4 called The Pigeon Adventure that's under development. .