OVERspace
Offering Virginia Educators Resources in Spatial
Practices Across the Curriculum for Excellence

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OVERspace is a Professional Development Program using problem-based teaching and engaging the process of inquiry. In OVERspace workshops, teachers learn how to use Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software, and remotely-sensed images and data to help students visualize information and develop spatial thinking skills.

OVERspace professional development workshops are conducted by an OVERspace Team of highly trained and motivated educators. Their goal is to empower workshop participants with the skills, teaching strategies, and instructional resources plus the follow-up support needed to effectively use geospatial applications and technologies in the classroom. All workshops are designed to demonstrate curricular integration and to correlate with the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL).

OVERspace workshops can be customized depending on the need to reinforce or implement standards based instruction. Participants will be able to bring the excitement and knowledge of space-age technology into the classroom “to inspire the next generation of explorers.”

OVERspace workshops are provided at modest cost. Most costs can be underwritten by a school’s development and training funds. Training may also be sponsored by external grants as funding becomes available. Software is provided at no cost by the Virginia Department of Education through a statewide software license agreement.

OVERspace is sponsored by the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. Take advantage of this professional development opportunity and obtain further information about OVERspace.

Contact Nick Koltun, VSGC Educational Programs Specialist, at (757) 766-5210 or nkoltun@odu.edu for more information or to arrange a workshop in your school division.