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GPS & Geocaching in Any Classroom - UCET Presentation
03/05/09 | by Clint ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
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| Categories: Content Area Ideas, Media, Videos, Caches that Teach, Links & Resources 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 sol… more »
New STEM Activities for GPS & ArcGIS
"We're happy to announce the publication of the Rural STEM GIS activity collection for AEJEE and ArcGIS. This collection of 12 activities (authored by Barbaree Ash Duke, edited by me and classroom tested by teachers around the country) focuses on middle… more »
GPS & Geocaching in Any Classroom - UCET Presentation
Here is a .mov file of the slide show that I used at UCET in 2008, and a shorter version without the eTrex Legend GPSr demo in Flash (.swf). I have created it in Keynote for the Mac, and because of the complexities of the transitions and effects, I can't… more »
Lexicon of Geocaching, or "What Does THAT Mean?"
This site will provide a sort of Geocaching and GPS dictionary of the terms & vocabulary that are used frequently in the sport. Now you will know what TNLN and TFTC mean! more »
How Does GPS Work???
This is a great little primer from PBS about how a GPSr actually figures out it's location - it even describes the math in detail!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/gps.html
Enjoy. more »
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