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Howdy - I'm Clint and I am the Technology Integration Specialist for SEDC, Southwest Educational Development Center in the beautiful SW corner of Utah. Welcome to my posterous site.

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Geocaching and Education

Geocaching and Education

Welcome educators, group leaders and facilitators!

Geocaching is a cross-curricular activity that educators, leaders and facilitators are incorporating into their programs with great success. Geocaching combines outdoor play with team-building, problem-solving and other valuable educational outcomes.

This is a collection of our resources so you can combine geocaching and education in your classroom, camp, or seminar.

via geocaching.com

Excellent. Although I've been doing this sort of thing for years, it's great to see Geocaching.com start to provide a clearinghouse of resources for educators.

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GPS & GIS In The Classroom for WCSD

Here's the Dixie Art Scavenger Hunt GPS Activity.

Click here to download:
Dixie Art Scavenger Hunt 2011.pdf (1.71 MB)
(download)

Here's my handout of ways to integrate the GPS and Geocacihng into your instruction.

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Geocaching_Classroom_Ideas.pdf (1.49 MB)
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Garmin GPS Drivers and Garmin Web Updater. You'll also probably need GSAK before too long...

UK Tour in Google Earth.

Click here to download:
UK_Trip_Tour.kml (310 KB)

You can make your own tour of Historic Places in St. George, or anywhere else you like. Here's a handout on creating Tours in Google Earth that you might find helpful.

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Creating_a_Tour_in_Google_Maps.docx (725 KB)
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Class credit information can be found here.

 

If you'd like to find the cache that we hid at the end of the day, view the cache page here.

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GPS & Google Earth Put To USE!

Thanks for inviting me to come to Lake Powell School today to work with you all on GPS and Google Earth. Here's a few resources we may need, or that you can refer back to after our time together today:

 

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GPS in the Classroom for Washington Co. School District, June 1-2, 2010

Here's the links and resources you'll need during our 2 days together of getting to know how to use a GPS to find locations, mark locations of your own, and integrating this technology to collect relevant data & create custom maps with your classes. Here's a link to my GPS Blog for Education hosted at SEDC, and the class agenda is attached below. Another useful resource could be the Groundspeak Forum for GPS in Education.

Links and relevant resources, Day 1:

Links & Resources, Day 2

Links to Google Earth Layer Files:

Here's the assignment for the class to receive full credit:

Assignment: Using the UEN Lesson Plan tool (optional), Google Docs or Microsoft Word, develop and implement a lesson that incorporates a GPS activity. You should include the following fields in your lesson plan: Summary, Curriculum Tie, Intended Learning Outcomes, Instructional Procedures, and Assessment Plan. Include with your lesson plan a reflective paper. In your paper:
  • Describe how you used the GPS in the classroom and how the activity benefited your students.
  • Evaluate your activity and describe its effectiveness incorporating the GPS as a learning tool.
  • Include the state core standard(s) the project is tied to, as well as a description of the critical thinking skill(s) from Bloom’s Taxonomy that your students will use when completing the activity.

Click here to download:
2-Day Washington Agenda 2010.pdf (64 KB)
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Click here to download:
Dixie GPS Scavenger Hunt Participant.pdf (111 KB)
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Engage Your Students with GPS! Links to Today's UCET Presentation Resources

First let me thank you for taking your time and coming to my UCET presentation today. If you'd like to use or review the resources that I discussed today, just follow the links below:
Session Summary:
In Utah, 24% of the Class of 2011 were not proficient in Math portion on the UBSCT. In the SEDC (Southwest) region, some of the UBSCT concepts that students have done very poorly on are the understanding the concept & calculation of area, and solving one-factor equations. There is a need to present these concepts to many of our students in a new way. Global Positioning System Receivers (GPSr’s) can be an effective and engaging technology tool to help your students understand these concepts and enable your students to experience math in their world in a 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 yourschool campus during a rainstorm! Not a math teacher, that’s OK! I will show you over 50 ways to integrate GPS into your instruction in any classroom.

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