GPS & Geocaching in Education

Link: http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=23849

Here is a GPS/GIS related lesson plan created by Jamie Bennion from Washington County School District. He was a participant in a 2-day class on Location Based Learning & Analysis with GPS class that I taught for the district.

His lesson plan is very in depth and cross-discipline in nature. With the GPS and simulated biotic and abiotic factors to consider, students can analyze the collected data and draw conclusions about animal habitat. The lesson and the included example Google Earth file is very well done, with a mixture of not only GPS points, but different polygons drawn to indicate different elevations, vegetation and geology that influence the occurance of different animal species represented by stuffed animals that the students find and mark the location of.

An excellent example of integrating this tool for some real project based work and analysis. Amazing work, Jamie!