Introducing GPS and Geocaching Lesson Plan - 3rd Grade

Third grade students 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.

Students also had fun putting their new GPS knowledge to work as they searched for caches around campus. Working with partners, each group was assigned a cache to locate. Once the cache was found, they used an online graphing tool, Create a Graph, to create a bar graph of the cache's contents.