National Atlas: great place to make maps and use GIS concepte to look at all
sorts of geographical information.
http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/Natlasstart.asp
"Utah Center for Climate and Weather (UCCW) is a premier site for anyone
wanting accurate information about Utah's climate and weather. The UCCW is a
cooperative effort among educators and scientists to share accurate and useful
information with students and the general public about Utah's past, present
and future climate and weather. Cooperation and collaboration-not competition
or commercialism-is the driving force behind the UCCW. All UCCW officials are
non-paid volunteers."
I have listed the Hydrology page below because it has all sorts of great links
to info about water and drought in the West and Utah. If you like snow,
water, and rivers, this is cool!
http://www.utahweather.org/hydrology.html
This is the Utah Educational Network (UEN) resource page that accesss some of
the sites that I have used here at Wasatch in the GPS/GIS course I taught the
past 3 years (but am no longer, unfortunately). These are popular resources
such as Google Earth, Geocaching and the National Atlas (great resource for
geography class).
http://www.uensd.org/gis/resourses.htm
This is a great way to learn about how a GPS works. We use the Garmin eTrex
Legend here at Wasatch.
http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/
Here are some downloadable guides about GPS. There is even one for beginners.
http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/manual.html
Here is a great link to a site about GIS (Geographic Information System), the
hottest thing going right now and ESRI is the industry leader. This site
introduces you to the concept and provides further resources to learn more
about GIS. We have their software on the my laptop lab computers.
http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html