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Distance Ed. Lab Assignments

Labs must be uploaded to the supplemental BLACKBOARD web site (my.oregonstate.edu), in Tools ---> Dropbox by 5:00 p.m. every Saturday. Please use Microsoft Word. Your write-up and screen snapshots can easily be incorporated into a SINGLE Microsoft Word document, and then uploaded to the Dropbox. You will be doing a lot of screen snapshots for your labs. This is an especially good skill to obtain for all kinds of work that you may need to do for other classes, professional reports and documents on the job, or on the Internet (see more info. below). Most PCs do screen snapshots with the "Print Screen" key that sends the image file to the Clipboard (again, see more info. below). If you do not or cannot use Microsoft Word, please save your document as an RTF (Rich Text Format) file and send that. Most word processors have RTF as an alternative format to save documents to.

Lab 1

Do Exercises 3a, 3b, 3c

• turn in a screen snapshot of what your ArcMap window looks like at the end of Exercise 3a, p. 29 (Amelia Earhart's journey)
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your ArcMap window looks like at the end of Exercise 3b, p. 38 (Amelia Earhart offcourse)
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your ArcMap session looks like, including "Statistics of Flight Path" at the end of Exercise 3c, p. 46

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Lab 2

Do Exercises 4a, 4b, 4c

• turn in a screen snapshot of what your ArcCatalog session looks like at the very end of Exercise 4a, p. 59
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcCatalog session at the end of Exercise 4b, p. 68
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window with new data added and new data frame renamed, at the end of Exercise 4c, p. 83

Do Exercises 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d

• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing the initial stage of your Africa poster for Geography Awareness Week, at the end of Exercise 5a, p. 94
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing the the three layout data frames, at the end of Exercise 5b, p. 107
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing the the four layout data frames, at the end of Exercise 5c, p. 116
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing the the four layout data frames (including the one with both vector and raster data sets), at the end of Exercise 5d, p. 127
• Write a paragraph explaining why building pyramids was a necessary step at this stage in your Africa poster construction.

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Lab 3

Do Exercises 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d

• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing the the six layout data frames, at the end of Exercise 6a, p. 142
• Write a short paragraph describing the differences between the graduated color, dot density, graduated, and proportional symbologies.
• Write a short paragraph describing the differences between the 6 methods for classifying features
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing the the six layout data frames, at the end of Exercise 6b, p. 150
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing the the seven layout data frames, at the end of Exercise 6c, p. 157
• Create a screen snapshot of your final Africa poster for Geography Awareness Week and write a summary of the steps you completed in Exercise 6d, in order to finish create this terrific poster
• Turn in your final "my_ex06d.mxd" file representing your completed Africa poster (you should rename this file to include your own name and upload this to the Dropbox on the supplemental Blackboard site, my.oregonstate.edu as well).

Do Exercises 18a, 18b, 18c

• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing the the your map template, at the end of Exercise 18a, p. 468
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing your map at this stage, at the end of Exercise 18b, p. 475
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing your final map (no need to export to emf for PowerPoint), at the end of Exercise 18c, p. 480

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Lab 4

Do Exercises 8a, 8b, 8c

• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 8a, p. 208, including all windows opened/created.
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 8b, p. 214, including all windows opened/created.
• save your report to text and turn it in (or you can include a screen snapshot of it in your Word document)

Chapter 9 - Joining and Relating Tables

Do Exercises 9a and 9b

• turn in a screen snapshot of what your ArcMap window looks like, with symbology applied to your Louisiana map, at the very end of Exercise 9a, p. 238
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, at the end of Exercise 9b, p. 251
• Take that extra step of joining the "Remedial_actions" table to the "Pits_75" table, then relating the "Metals" table to the joined table. Please include a screen snapshot showing your results. Which cleanup options do you recommend for the 3 sites that contain lead???

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Lab 5

Do Exercises 10a and 10b

• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing the 6 neighborhoods selected that meet the criteria, at the end of Exercise 10a, p. 259
• turn in a screen snapshot of your entire ArcMap session, including all windows opened/created, at the end of Exercise 10b, p. 272
• In your own words, explain what a spatial join is. Write a short paragraph describing HOW a spatial join is similar to the table join that you performed in Lab 4 (Chapter 9), and why this is an important GIS operation to perform.

Chapter 11 - Preparing Data for Analysis

Do Exercises 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d

• before closing any windows, turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like, including all windows opened/created, at the end of Exercise 11a, p. 282
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 11b, p. 287, including all windows opened/created and your graph.
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing your final streams layer, at the end of Exercise 11c, p. 294
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, with your three layers, at the end of Exercise 11d, p. 300

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Lab 6

Do Exercises 12a, 12b, 12c

• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 12a, p. 311, including all windows opened/created.
Reminder: It's not necessary to include a screen snapshot at the end of every activity or stage *within* an exercise - just the final result.
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like, including all windows opened/created (including attributes), at the very end of Exercise 12b, p. 323
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like, including all windows opened/created (including attributes and statistics), at the very end of Exercise 12c, p. 329
• Make sure to read p. 330, before going on to Chapter 13, Exercise 13

Chapter 13 - Projecting Data in ArcMap

Do Exercises 13a and 13b

• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, showing your U.S. population map with the Alaska and Hawaii data frames included, from the very end of Exercise 13a, p. 347
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcMap window, including your map showing which states and cities have experienced the most growth between 1990 and 2000, from the very end of Exercise 13b, p. 356

Chapter 20 - Creating Models (Recall especially the analysis model discussion in Lectures 11 and 12)

Do Exercises 20a, 20b, and 20c

• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like, including all windows opened/created (including Harvest Profitability Model window at this beginning stage), at the very end of Exercise 20a, p. 529
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 20b, p. 540, including all windows opened/created (including Harvest Profitability Model window at this stage).
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 20c, p. 550, including all windows opened/created (including final Harvest Profitability Model window and Statistics of NoCutAndStands).

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Lab 7

Do Exercises 14a, 14b, 14c

• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcCatalog window, showing a preview of the WaterValves feature class within the CityData.mdb geodatabase, at the end of Exercise 14a, p. 364.
• turn in a screen snapshot of your ArcCatalog window, showing that the WaterLines feature class has been added to the CityData.mdb geodatabase, at the end of Exercise 14b, p. 370.
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcCatalog session looks like at the very end of Exercise 14c, p. 378, including all windows opened/created (especially the final Feature Class Properties window).

Chapter 15 - Creating Features

Do Exercises 15a and 15b

• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 15a, p. 388, including all windows opened/created (especially Attributes of WaterLines).
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very of Exercise 15b, p. 401, including all windows opened/created. The screen snapshot should 15b should show both parcels.

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Lab 8

Do Exercises 16a, 16b, 16c

• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 16a, p. 414
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the ver end of Exercise 16b, p. 422, including all windows opened/created (especially Selected Attributes of Parcels).
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 16c, p. 429, including all windows opened/created (especially Attributes of Parcels).

Chapter 17 - Geocoding Addresses

Do Exercises 17a, 17b, 17c

• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcGIS session looks like at the very end of Exercise 17a, p. 439, including all windows opened/created in both ArcMap and ArcCatalog.
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at the very end of Exercise 17b, p. 448, including all windows opened/created (especially Attributes of Geocoding Result: Geocode 1).
• turn in a screen snapshot of what your entire ArcMap session looks like at every end of Exercise 17c, p. 460, including all windows opened/created (especially Attributes of Geocode 1).

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