GPS & Geocaching in Education

Global Positioning System Receivers (GPSr’s) can be an effective and engaging technology tool to help your students FINALLY understand some concepts in Math that may have escaped them, such as understanding and calculating area & volume, and even solving 1-factor equations. Using a GPS unit will allow your students to experience math in a whole new way. We will cover how to use a GPSr to find the area and perimeter of a location, calculate the slope of a hill (& the distance up that hill!), and even how to figure out the volume of water fall on your school campus during a rainstorm! Not a math teacher, that’s OK! I will also provide over 50 ideas to integrate GPS into your instruction across all curricular areas.

Session handout in PDF form

Here's the direct link to the video on TeacherTube.
Copy of GPS & Geocaching Presentation in .mov format (right click to download)