GPS Activities for the Classroom

Activity Description: Describe in as much detail as possible.

What do you want the students to learn?

• The students will conduct a lab investigation using safe practices.
• The students will collect data to show the changes of various indigenous plants located on the campus.

Set-up

• Locate plants of student’s choice in a specific area and plot their location.
• Start time to begin second week of school.
• Photograph the specimens.
• Power Point (compare).
• Camera.
• GPS.

What steps will the students take?

• Locate trees, flowers, grasses.
• Note coordinates. (6.2A)
• Photograph. (6.2B)
• Enter information in a power point presentation. (6.2C)
• Collect data every three weeks to show changes as the season changes.
• Graph color changes and growth data.
• Construct a model of the plant to show the change over time. (6.3C)
• Place the data in a power point presentation to communicate the data collected.
• On a grid map of the school campus, plot the locations of the specimens.

Extra Activities?

• Plot the location of the building, and place a model of it in relation to the specimen.
• Predict how human activities affect your specimen’s growth.

Elementary GPS Lessons

Middle School GPS Lessons

High School GPS Lessons