GPS+Projects


 * GPS Great Projects for Students

Books: Google Earth + GPS Google Tools for Teaching and Learning GPS Hid & Seek:

http://moodleweb1.lisd.net/schoolweb2 Go to ForestWood > Jeans

Geocaching Geo Vocabulary** Create clues for vocabulary words and choose items for cache Use activity for latitude and longitude Use Riddles for geocaching and objects: atlas, map, pictures of gloves and satellite

Day 1 teach/practice GPS basics Day 2 GeoCache activity Day 3 & 4: Computer Activity with results Day 5: GeoCache Hide & Seek

Use colored tape for camera, clipboard, and other equipment to keep all together for each group

At cache, students read riddle, figure out vocab word, take picture of object and group member.

Computer activity: Create fanbook with a page for each word and a page to tell what they learned.

Use Google Earth with longitude and latitude to show the importance of seconds.


 * Hide and Seek**

Students hide an object, hide the cache and mark the waypoint. Then trade with each other.

Review function of organs and tissue. Understand what happens when they don't function. Understand reason for donation.
 * Organ Donor

Students are at Trauma Center and have to pick up organs at each cache. Each cache has a information sheet to read and fill in missing information on their data sheet. Caches have roll of tape and organ.

**Bone Collectors **(from Google Earth & GPS) Review bones of the human skeleton.**

Space Inventions Discover common household projects that were developed for space. (smoke detector, digital thermometer, etc).

Geocaches have objects that have something to do with identification, measurement, and calculation of geometric figures.
 * Geometry Geocaching**

Students research holocaust survivor to find 6 key events in their life Use Google Earth to find and mark the locations that go with the events. Placemarks have survivors name, facts, narration recording of events at that location, and photos if available. Placemarks saved in folder and saved as KMZ. Create a tour.
 * Holocaust Research**

Research country of origin and create 6 placemarks Save as a kmz file. Upload to school web site.
 * Ancestry Project**