GPS+Basics



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Third grade students in St. Petersburg, Flordia participated in a [|WebQuest] to learn about GPS and geocaching. Using pre-selected Web sites, they researched GPS, learned about satellites and [|GPS receivers], and read about the sport of geocaching. Each student then researched and answered a specific question on a class VoiceThread.

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· How GPS works? [|Launchpad: How GPS Works]
=== · What are GPS receivers and how do they work? [|Geocaching Intro]===

· Geocaching in the News

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

· Important Vocabulary
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.GreenZoner egypt