GPS Activities for the Classroom

Activity Description: Describe in as much detail as possible.

What do you want the students to learn?

• Students will learn that length of daylight hours is determined by position of Earth and the season.

Set-up

• GPS
• Computer with Google Earth
• Graph paper
• Colored pencils
• List of city coordinates (predetermined by teacher to ensure spaced out over globe)

What steps will the students take?

• Students will find names of cities on Google Earth from coordinates given to them by teacher.
• Students will look up each city in the GPS to find the sunrise and sunset on the first day of each season.
• Students will make a bar graph of the number of daylight hours and minutes for each city for each season.

Extra Activities?

• Connect with another city (via email) that is in a very different part of the earth and share information about how daylight hour differences through the year affect their lives, activities, and the nature around them.

Elementary GPS Lessons

Middle School GPS Lessons

High School GPS Lessons