GPS Devices and Place-based LearningAnnette Lamb, Professor, Indiana University
Explores ways GPS devices are integrated into classroom and community activities. Also, provides endless activity ideas and curriculum connections. http://eduscapes.com/omrp/gps.htm
I'm a geocaher AND we will be getting a class set of GPS units with our grant. Annette had lots of great activities for place based learning. One neat thing was a collaborative project where students all over the U.S. planted daffodils and then they recorded when the daffodils bloomed in their area. Another neat idea was to have a GPS journaling/art activity. Where students follow GPS directions to a place where they receive a writing or drawing prompt. They complete the activity and leave what they did to share with the next person and then they go to another point. She talked about kids creating interactive maps with points of interest in their community. Lots more cool ideas.
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