Embedded Files
GIS provides authentic learning opportunities even without going for fieldwork.
The COVID-19 posed constraints for fieldwork as students were not able to visit field sites to collect data. However, GIS has transform these challenges into richer and deeper learning opportunities.
Exploring Singapore
Exploring Singapore
This storymap puts together different activities and digital maps for students to understand more about urban planning. Students explore where people and amenities are distributed across Singapore. They look at how spatial data can be represented differently.
Water Quality between AISS and Yishun Pond
Water Quality between AISS and Yishun Pond
This webapp allows students to study how the drain networks may affect water quality at AISS and Yishun Pond. Each data point has an image to provide students information about the fieldsite without being physically there.
What makes Chong Pang City special?
What makes Chong Pang City special?
Through exploring and visualising population data, age of HDB flats, and land use data collected using ArcCollector, students investigate what makes their neighourhood special, and how the amenities meets the needs of residents.
Using the different layers of data in the web map, students investigate questions such as:
Where is Chong Pang?
How is the population structure different from the rest of Yishun?
Does that influence the provision and distribution of amenities in in Chong Pang?
What adjustments can be made to the distribution of amenities so that it is easily accessible to all residents?
Below are some students' reflection:
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