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The following tutorial is an adaptation of Rick Thomas' excellent GIS Dust Bowl tutorial for the In Time and Place library of teaching materials for American History. All orignial files (shapefiles, raster files, and ArcMap files) on which the layer files for this tutorial were based can be found under the link for the Dust Bowl GIS files at the original site. Thomas' focus is in teaching GIS skills. Many humanities and social sciences instructors may want to use these resources, but feel that teaching GIS to students is outside the scope of their curriculum. This ArcGIS Explorer Desktop adaptation of the Dust Bowl unit is meant to aid instructors who do not have access to ArcGIS software or who might not have the time to teach GIS skills in the classroom. |
Install ArcGIS Explorer Desktop
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Download Dust Bowl Tutorial Files
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All files, including copies of Rick Thomas' original GIS files, have been included in the package for this tutorial. Layer files (all files with the .lyr file extension) were created by Krista White, GIS Support Specialist, Drew University. All other files were created by Rick Thomas. Thomas' original files are included because they serve as a source for the .lyr files used by ArcGIS Explorer. |
- To find files for this tutorial, go to https://depts.drew.edu/envstudies/GIS Tutorials/Dust Bowl.zip
- A dialog box will appear titled, "Opening Dust Bowl.zip." Save the file to your computer's Desktop.
- Navigate to the desktop of your computer and unzip the file. To do this, right click on the Dust Bowl.zip folder. (click image to enlarge)
- Choose Extract All. The Windows Extraction Wizard will appear.
- Click Next. Make sure that the field under "Files will be extracted to this directory" points to your computer's desktop. (click image to enlarge)
- If it does not point to your computer's Desktop, click the Browse button. The select a destination dialog box will appear.
- Choose the Desktop option that appears at the very top of the window in the dialog box. You may need to use the scroll bar on the right hand side of the window to see the Desktop Option. (click image to enlarge)
- Click OK.
- Once this field points to your computer's Desktop, click Next. Windows will unzip the file and tell you that the extraction is complete. Click the Finish button.
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