Geocaching Informational Websites
Garmin GPS Guide for Beginners:
GPS/Geocaching for Dummies Articles:
How GPS works
** NOVA GPS: The New Navigation:Find Your Longitude Game
** Trimble GPS Tutorial:
Wikipedia – GPS
Garmin eTrex
Dissecting the eTrex
Everything you might want to know about your eTrex
Working with Garmin Receivers:
GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife)
This free Geocaching and waypoint management tool allows users to send or receivewaypoints to GPS receivers (and more). I use this when programming multiple GPS units for a class.
Geocaching
** Easy GPS:
Geocaching 101 – The Basics of the Hunt:
Geocaching.com:
Geocaching forums:
** Geocaching PowerPoint:
Geocaching video:October 18, 2006 News Report
** GPS Visualizer overlays waypoints on Google maps and satellite imagery
** What is Geocaching? –video
Sites to Determine Lat/Long
** Geocoder.us:
Google Maps:
terraserver:
Education
** Checking out GPS Devices to Use in Classroom Instruction- form for GPS unit check-out
Contact Person in the Social Studies Section of DPI for borrowing GPS Units
Michelle McLaughlin
** Dr. Alice Christie GPS and Geocaching Guide for Educators
Edcaching:
GPS & GeoCaching in Education:
Geocaching for Educators – Teaching Hacks:
GPS in Education forum:
History and Geocaching
Integrating Technology into the Social Studies Classroom-
** Sample Lessons for the Classroom- Lesson Plans designed by Campbell University Pre-Service Teachers are featured under “Sample Lessons for the Classroom”
** NC DPI Geocaching
USGS Educational GPS site:
** Sites that I find particularly helpful