Teacher information on "Introduction to QGIS 3 and GIS

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Overview

Goal

After completing the corresponding worksheets, you or the students will understand some fundamentals of GIS and be able to use the basic functions of QGIS 3.

Audience

  • Students in curriculum 21 cycle 2 or 3 (4th to 9th school year) supported by a teacher

  • Autodidacts with self-study

Scheduling

  • Each chapter takes at least 1 hour.

Preparation

You / the students should have installed or have access to the desktop software QGIS version 3.x on a computer. In case of problems choose QGIS version 3.4.5 LTR (64 bit).

The students need a web browser with internet access to complete the worksheets.

Chapter test questions

There are currently 5 chapters respectively 5 worksheets. See chapter "Chapter test" at the end of the corresponding chapters or worksheets.

Chapter 1 What is a Geographic Information System?

  • Question 1 What can you do with a GIS?

  • Question 2 What tools do you have to navigate on the map?

  • Question 3 In which subject would GIS be useful?

Chapter 2 What is Geodata?

  • Question 1 What do the raster and vector format look like?

  • Question 2 What does the terms geodata/spatial data mean?

  • Question 3 What is the difference between WMS layer and vector data layer?

Chapter 3 Data Collection and Management

  • Question 1 What two ways do you know of storing vector data?

  • Question 2 Describe the structure of a table.

  • Question 3 What must a text file contain in order to be visible in the map window?

  • Question 4 What possibilities do you have to get the different data?

Chapter 4 Data Analysis

  • Question 1 What is the difference between query and manipulation?

  • Question 2 Creating an SQL query

  • Question 3 Combination of SQL Queries

Chapter 5 Presentation of Geographic Information

  • Question 1 Creating and exporting a map

  • Question 2 Evaluate map

Any questions? Turn to QGIS (https://www.qgis.org) or Stefan Keller (sfkeller@hsr.ch)!

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