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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 siteThis tutorial was expanded and adapted from Thomas, R.. (2008). In Time and Place, "Dust Bowl."  Redlands, CA: ESRI.  Retrieved October 5, 2010, from In Time and Place: http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/gisedcom/archive/2009/10/16/exploring-data-using-cartograms-within-arcgis-desktop.aspxhttp://www.intimeandplace.org/Dust%20Bowl/index.html.

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.

The following tutorial is an adaptation the' excellent GIS Dust Bowl tutorial for the In Time and Place library of teaching materials for American History. All original 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.