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Open the Door to GIS guides you through a set of stories that will teach you how to use the most popular Open Source Geographic Information System available---QGIS. This book is recommended for students age 10--15 years.

You'll learn how to:

• Operate new software
• Design a digital map
• Generate a 3D map
• Communicate with maps
• Advance your creativity with a graphics package
• Invent solutions using software
• Successfully manage working as a group
• Develop a learning strategy for approaching new software
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Geographic Information Systems are a compelling way to present data as well as offering a learning platform for students to become proficient with a variety of digital, graphical, analytical and technical skills.

Open the Door to GIS offers a way for teachers to use this powerful software in their classes without having to become experts, with freely downloadable Open-Source GIS, QGIS.

Using one of the oldest forms of teaching in the world, storytelling, each chapter offers students a fun and engaging way to learn about GIS, with a weekly story and activity, covering...

On a breathtaking horse farm in quiet Bedford, Virginia, Cary McCutcheon and his wife, Pam Ashworth McCutcheon, live the good life. Or so it seems.

Lately, Cary's thoroughbred-horse business has fallen into financial trouble. Pam's distinguished aunt Pamela Ashworth is in ill health and needs help. And then there is one thing that has always bothered Aunt Pamela and her niece-a dark family secret that has never been investigated. When Cary and Pam visit Aunt Pamela in Charlottesville, they decide that they must learn the truth.

Just as they begin to investigate, Pam is...

The three shady characters gathered in a mildewy old trailer are up to no good. Dix, Rosemary, and Johnny have been hired by someone unknown to drug Cary McCutcheon's horse before it runs the Virginia Gold Cup next October.

At the party celebrating Darkling Lord's departure to Fayence Farm for special training, there's good reason for Connie Holt's unease around Rosemary, who's filling in for Cary's regular secretary while she's on vacation. An equine insurance investigator who works for Cary and his wife, Pam, Connie has grown close to Dark during the thoroughbred's time at the...