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Published by
 Australian Academy of Science
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Activities | GPS and never having to say: 'Where am I?'
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- Investigating science in the bush (An Australian Science Teachers Association special for Science Week, 2002)
- Bush technology: GPS suggests six projects that allow students to investigate the application of a GPS system (page 16).
- NSW HSC Online (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
This series of lessons on information systems provides background information
and suggestions for classroom discussion and activities.
- NOVA Online Adventure (Public Broadcasting Service, USA)
- Find your longitude students find out where they are on a voyage by calculating their longitude. (Shockwave and non-Shockwave versions of the activity are available.)
- GPS: The new navigation students calculate a receiver's distance from a satellite by looking at the time delay of the satellite's signal. (Shockwave, non-Shockwave and mini-application versions of the activity are available.)
- Southern California Integrated GPS Network (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA)
- Balloon Outreach, Research, Exploration And Landscape Imaging System Classroom (Physics at Montana State University, USA)
- Geocaching
- Nearest geocache(s): Australia students can participate in the sport of geocaching in which GPS users use location coordinates posted on the internet to find a hidden cache.
- From a distance (NASA, USA)
- Space Geodesy Group (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA)
- Using GPS in the classroom students read about applications of GPS then click on the worksheet 'Applications of the Global Positioning System' where they are asked to design a system that incorporates GPS receivers.
- Degree Confluence Project (USA)
- Overview students can participate in this project whose goal it is to visit each of the latitude and longitude degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. (The Australian sites that have already been visited are listed at http://www.confluence.org/country.php?id=15.)
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