SpatiaLabs

Designed for a broad range of disciplines, SpatiaLABS complements and enhances an instructor's course with self-directed investigations that help students increase their spatial reasoning and analytical skills. Created by educators and peer reviewed, SpatiaLABS provides students in the physical, social, and applied sciences with 64 lessons on topics including environmental studies, business, urban studies, and spatial statistics. Students develop GIS and cartography skills during these investigations; however, the primary objective of SpatiaLABS is to teach students how to approach and solve geospatial problems. Although each activity has been written with skill prerequisites in mind‚ from no GIS ability to advanced GIS project experience‚ SpatiaLABS exercises are customizable, allowing educators to adapt them to student capabilities or use local data, when appropriate.