OUTLINE and LESSON PLANS



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SAFE CITY- St. Louis INSTRUCTION and ACTIVITY SHEET

Make sure you are in SAFE CITY WEBSITE

Make sure you have the Instruction/ Activity Sheet

Make sure you have PowerPoint opened and saved as (your first name-safe city)

PART 1: Analyzing Crimes against Persons

• Add your name to the Header of this file.

• Go to the Safe City Website. (See our link in the web)

• Type your address and click NEXT

• Click Crime against persons and select all the options (CACH, Kidnapping, Robbery, etc)

• Click REFRESH Button. (A map of the area should appear with a circular area highlighted in green)

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1-What do the following shapes represent? And how many of each shape do you find in the selected area? Fill in table 1.

Table 1: Crimes Against Persons

|Shapes |Explanation |Number |

|Green Triangles | | |

|Yellow Triangles | | |

|Pink Triangles | | |

| |Overall Total | |

(HINT: If you don’t know what the shapes mean hit on the legend button.)

2-Why will it be important to know this information about your neighborhood?

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3-What other information regarding personal crimes do you think could be important to know?

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(HINT: Think when will these kinds of crime occur more often)

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POWERPOINT PART

• Make sure you have saved this document first.

• Copy the Map with the legend into Paint and then Transfer the image into a PowerPoint. Put the following title “Crime against Persons” on the PowerPoint

(Note: Make sure that when you transfer the image from paint to PowerPoint you include the copyright information this is VERY IMPORTANT!!; If you need help see PowerPoint example from the Web about HHBGC and crime patterns around it)

o You probably will not be able to copy the map. Therefore do the following:

▪ With the legend placed on the left corner of the map and the map screen as your active screen, click on PrintScreen (PrtScn) Keyboard Key. (You will take a snap shot of your screen the way it looks)

▪ Open paint and paste the image. If a window appears asking you to resize the canvas because image is too large click OK.

(Note: Make sure that when you transfer the image from paint to PowerPoint you include the copyright information this is VERY IMPORTANT!!)

o Make sure you are saving your PowerPoint in your GIS folder. You will use this same PowerPoint to add slides of other crimes.

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4-What area is covered by the circle? Use the formula: Pi x r2, where Pi = 3.14 and you’ll need to find the radius. How can you find the radius?

|How did you find the radius? What program did you use? |

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|Total Area covered by the circle? |

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|Number of crimes per area? |

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|Why do you think it is important to talk about crimes per area? |

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PART 2: Getting maps for other Crimes.

• You will make maps of: Crime against Property and Crime against State (Include all factors for both maps). Before you do this maps click on the CLEAR button to clean the map and be able to select other options.

• Import both maps and their legends into PowerPoint and name the slides according to what they show. (See Web example on HHBGC if needed)

• Complete Table 2 and 3 with information about what each icon means and the total number of these icons.

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Table 2: Crimes Against Property

|Shapes |Explanation |Number |

|White Triangles | | |

|Purple Triangles | | |

|Orange/Yellow Triangles | | |

| |Overall Total | |

5. Why will it be important to know this information about your neighborhood?

6. What does Arson mean?

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Table 3: Crimes Against State

|Shapes |Explanation |Number |

|Grey Triangles | | |

|Green Triangles | | |

|Orange/Yellow Triangles | | |

|Purple/Red outline Triangles | | |

|Pink/ Black outline Triangle | | |

| |Overall Total | |

5. Why will it be important to know this information about your neighborhood?

6. What does DWI mean?

PART 3: Adding Graphs to your powerpoint

• Using the tables you’ve just created (Table 1,2 and 3> Highlighted in Red Font). Put this information in Excel and try to make three graphs that will show the information in a different way to the viewer. Try combining all the data from your tables together into one chart.

PART 4: Emailing your final products

• Save this word document in your GIS folder. Make sure you name your files (Powerpoint and Word Document) appropriately. That is have it in this format

o “name”_”type of file”_Safecity” Example: Jose_Word_safecity

• Once you have saved both files and they are complete email to me in separate email. (stc1@umsl.edu ) That is I should receive two email from you, one with your PowerPoint and another one with your word document

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