GPS Lessons LHSC wiki / Can you Dig It

GPS Activities for the Classroom

Short-Title of Activity

Can You Dig It?!

Target Grade(s)

Target Subject Area(s)

Science

5.4A, 5.12B, 5.2B, 5.1B

Equipment/Materials

GARMIN eTrex Legend GPS navigator, shovels, buckets,

goggles, data recording sheet

Author

Bonnie-Beth Nix Newman

Activity Description: Describe in as much detail as possible.

What do you want the students to learn?

How to record the following data using GPS device: material unearthed, coordinates, elevation, number of satellites, time.
How to excavate object without harming them.
Identify sites where coal or oil could potentially form in a few million years (not in their lifetime).
Hopefully recognize that we must conserve nonrenewable resources.

Set-up

Areas within the outdoor Learning Center’s pit must have buried plant material and animal bones in various locations.

What steps will the students take?

Students will be with their lab table partners.
Materials Manager will pass out goggles, shovels, and buckets.
Data Recorder will be responsible for recording group’s data on sheet.
Reader will read over assignment to group.
M and M will mark and read out data from GPS device.
All students will dig to find plant and animal bone locations.
Captain Cleanup with clean shovels and buckets after the dig.
After digging, all students will collaborate to determine where coal and oil would likely form and highlight those areas on data sheet.

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