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Michael Hakkarinen

Bridget Belardi's Geocaching Wikispace - 1 views

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    Bridget Belardi, DE Star, is the Guru of Geocaching! Her wikispace is full of great lesson ideas and resources. Bridget often hosts Geocaching events, Discovery Education webinars, etc.
Amy Boehman-Pollitt

Geocaching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Geocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (tupperware or similar) or ammo boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is often described as a "game of high-tech hide and seek,"
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    definition of geocaching
Michael Hakkarinen

GPS Activities & Lesson Plans - 0 views

  • This is an entire series of lessons- connecting Marzano, backwards curriculum design,  and gps units.   Lesson plans are for specific grade levels.   Lewiston School District Resources- pdf files E-Trex Interface 1 E-trex interface 2 Calculating relative accuracy of GPS Unit- GPS activity worksheet: Multi-point route: Teacher’s answer sheet for activities listed above: Basics-how to prepare for the activities in this section- Marker tags for activity 3:
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    Collection of links to school districts who use GPS devices and geocaching with students. The "Lewistown School District" area has a selection of lessons to introduce Geocaching and GPS devices to students.
Tony Bollino

ABC News - Japan Earthquake: before and after - 0 views

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    A VERY COOL interactive pictorial page of the BEFORE and AFTER satellite images of the devastation in Japan. Great to put on a whiteboard.
Michael Hakkarinen

Tripline - 1 views

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    Online web2.0 site that makes Google LitTrips more interactive and collaborative
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    This is cool. However it appears that there is not a lot of room for text. But definitely easier to make than Google Earth Trips. I like it. GE is still a more robust tool.
Amy Boehman-Pollitt

Mapping Our World - 1 views

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    Cool interactive site for elementary school kids on how maps are created from the globe
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    Those of you involved with elementary SS - check it out
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