ArcLessons Help

Search Tips

You can find lessons that match your needs using the Search tools to show you only the lessons that address a certain topic (e.g. Social Studies), or only those that use a specific software package (e.g., ArcView Spatial Analyst). You can search by title, topic, software used, level of GIS expertise, geographic scale, keyword, or any combination of these criteria.

Two quick searches (By Topic, By Software) are available on the ArcLessons home page. To use these, simply choose a topic (or software package) from the drop-list.

A complete search tool is available by clicking 'More Options." You can select multiple search criteria using this tool (e.g., Topic=Earth Science, GIS Level=Beginner, Software Needed=ArcView); this will find lessons that meet ALL the selected criteria. If your search does not return any results, you might want simplify your search (e.g., Topic=Earth Science, Software Needed=ArcView). The Keyword search can be very helpful for finding lessons on a particular issue (e.g., earthquakes, census, climate, etc.)

Download Help

Once you've found a Lesson of interest, click on the clipboard graphic above its title to go to the download page. You must review ESRI's license agreement to continue. If you agree to the terms, click the "I AGREE" button and you will be prompted to save the file to your local disk.

Please be sure to read any README file provided before using the LessonPak. ESRI assumes no responsibility for any of the Lessons downloaded from this site.

Upload Help

File uploads to ArcLessons will work with most browsers (Netscape Navigator version 2.x or above, Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.x or above).

Before uploading your lesson, please compress your Lesson(s) and related files, including a README file, into a single archive using WinZip or StuffIt. The ReadMe file should contain technical help for the Lesson(s) and your copyright information."

For security and administrative reasons, ESRI does not allow .exe files or any file without an extension to be uploaded to our server. For more information about LessonPak uploads, please send e-mail to k12-lib@esri.com