NSF IRES Rwanda Project Outreach

QGIS Educational Videos Developed for the Rwandan Educational Board (REB) for ICT SYLLABUS FOR LOWER SECONDARY National Curriculum

This page contains items related to NSF IRES Rwanda Project

The following videos were created by Jon Little from Monroe Community College to teach QGIS ICT SYLLABUS FOR LOWER SECONDARY National Curriculum as it relates Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Click here to download all the datasets used in all the videos (62 mb)

Video 1: Introduction to QGIS

Click here to view or download video 1 (length:10:51; file size:33mb)

Topic Covered in Video 1:

  1. QGIS Introductions
  2. Raster/Vector
  3. Saving
     

Video 1 relation to ICT SYLLABUS FOR LOWER SECONDARY National Curriculum

TOPIC AREA: APPLICATION SOFTWARE

SUB-TOPIC AREA: GIS

Unit 7: GIS and maps.

Learning Objectives

Content

Learning Activities

Knowledge and understanding

Skills

Attitude and values

-Understand the basic concepts of GIS

Explain GIS related to terms appropriately.

Appreciate the importance and function of GIS.

Define terms and concepts of GIS

-QGIS

-Learners open QGIS and browse, save, and close an existing map

Video 2: QGIS Interface and Navigation

Click here to view or download video 2 (length:6:26; file size:21 mb)

Topics covered in Video 2:

  1. QGIS Interface
  2. Zoom in and out
  3. Spatial bookmark

 

Video 2 relation to ICT SYLLABUS FOR LOWER SECONDARY National Cirriculum

TOPIC AREA: APPLICATION SOFTWARE

SUB-TOPIC AREA: GIS

Unit 7: GIS and maps.

Learning Objectives

Content

Learning Activities

Knowledge and understanding

Skills

Attitude and values

-Identify different elements of the interface of QGIS.
-Know and understand how to use different navigation.

- Explore the QGIS environment.

 

- Navigate a map

Appreciate the importance and function of GIS.

The interface of QGIS

-Table of Contents, menu bar, status bar, toolbars

- File handling

- Open an existing map, save, and close a map.

Navigation tools

-Zoom in/out, fixed zoom, previous extent, pan

- Spatial bookmark

-Learners identify and name different elements of the QGIS interface.

- Learners use navigation tools to explore a map.

Video 3: Query and Identify Tool

Click here to view or download video 3 (length:6:35; file size:23 mb)

Topics covered:

  1. Query
  2. Create layer based on selected feature
  3. Identify tool
  4. Buffer
  5. Organize map layers

Video 3 relation to ICT SYLLABUS FOR LOWER SECONDARY National Cirriculum

TOPIC AREA: APPLICATION SOFTWARE

SUB-TOPIC AREA: GIS

Unit 7: GIS and maps.

Learning Objectives

Content

Learning Activities

Knowledge and understanding

Skills

Attitude and values

- Know and understand how to use different navigation.

-Know how to identify a location using a query on a map.

- Query a map and organize map layers.

-Buffer

Appreciate the importance and function of GIS.

QGIS Query methods

-Find and identify
-Layers in a map

-Turn off/on a layer, order layers, rename a layer, and add/remove layer

Analysis (this is added)
-Buffer

 

-Learners query a map using the identify tool.

-Learners create a buffer.

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This research is funded through a grant from the US National Science Foundation and the project IRES Track I: Mapping and Quantifying the Natural Disaster Resilience of Displaced People with the University of Rwanda Center for Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (NSF OISE-1854247).