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The purpose of this lesson is to make maps by manipulating and adding to existing shapefiles to depict the data that you want to show.

Assignment 1: Joining Learning Target: Students will add new data to the attribute table of existing shapefiles Open both the joining instructions below AND the guided Reading. Complete the instructions and the guided reading. Guided reading should be printed when complete. You will need to download the excel sheet as well.







Joining Lesson Video Walkthroughs: @http://youtu.be/neRP6X-HJYE @http://youtu.be/kJvAfhU25S4

Assignment 2: Merging Learning Target: Students will combine multiple existing shapefiles and create a new, larger shapefile.



Assignment 3: Querying Learning Target: Students will perform a query function on shapefiles in order to show features with certain attributes



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