🎯 Learning Intention
Today I will use ArcGIS to create a thematic map showing risk zones, patterns, or community features.
✅ Success Criteria
I can select proper data layers, design a readable map, and explain the relationship between mapped features and real-world patterns.
🌍 Why Are We Learning This?
Thematic maps help us visualize patterns—like access to resources or risk areas—in our community. They’re essential tools for analysis and action.
🧠 Warm-Up – Tech Journal Prompt
💡 “How can maps help us solve community problems? Can you think of a time when seeing a map made an issue clearer?”
📚 Word of the Day
Layer
Definition: A set of related data you can add or remove from a map to reveal different information.
Sentence: “We added a flood risk layer to see which neighborhoods were most vulnerable.”
Why it matters: Layers let you compare patterns and see complex relationships at a glance.
📣 Lecture & Guided Discussion
Review: How to use ArcGIS layers and thematic mapping tools.
Demonstration: Selecting effective data sources for risk mapping.
✅ CFU: “Which data layer tells the most important story in your community map?”