GPS

=Let's Explore GPS Receivers=

= = = = =**Learning the Basics of GPS**= Movies:

· How GPS works? [|Launchpad: How GPS Works]
media type="custom" key="6098787" === · What are GPS receivers and how do they work? [|Geocaching Intro]=== media type="custom" key="6098799"

Geocaching in the News

 * [|High Tech Treasure Hunt]
 * [|KSL Utah News on Geocaching]
 * [|Geocaching on WUNC-TV]
 * [|Dave Ulmer and the First Geocache]

Make a video, a podcast, a picture, a poem, a song or something else to tell us about what you have learned about the words GPS, longitude, latitude, and satellite; how your GPS unit works.

=**Introduction: Geocaching with the Garmin eTrex**=

· Demonstrate how to use the Garmin eTrex · Student Practice using the Quick Start Checklist · Student Geocaching: Puzzling Practice

=**Introduction: Creating Way Points with the Garmin eTrex**=

· Demonstrate how to mark and name Waypoints · Student Practice Marking Trees and Plants around the school property · Student Download waypoints to Easy GPS

= = =**GPS Action Project**=

· Brainstorm Topics for Partner Action Projects · Select Action Project · Action Project Work: Create Geocache Clues · Map route for GPS Action Project · Mark and Name Waypoints and Hide Geocache Clues · Download Waypoints to Easy GPS

= = =**GPS Action Project Implementation**=

· Create Project Teaser · Demonstrate uploading to Google Earth ·

=Send a Classroom Geocache=

[|GPS Travel]

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