Geo+Camels+Lesson+Plan

=Culture Caching= ===Title: Culture Caching === ===Author(s): Ashley Hardee and Michelle Stanistreet ===

Grade Level(s): Third Grade
Content Areas: Social Studies, Literacy, and Technology
 * Brief Summary ****:** In small groups, students will explore cultures using maps, research, GPS technology, and collaborative learning to find the mystery geocaches. The geocaches will contain pictures about a particular culture. After finding their group’s cache, students will write a group paragraph introducing their culture. Each group will present their findings to the class. This project will lead into an independent research project from each student on one of the three cultures they discovered during their caches.

NC SCOS Goals/Objectives:
CCSS.ELA-literacy.W.3.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. 3.G.1.1- Find absolute and relative locations of places within the local community and region. 3.C.1.1- Compare languages foods and traditions of various groups living in local and regional communities.

MATERIALS & PREPARATION:
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 * 1) 3 maps of the school grounds and buildings (1 map per group)
 * 1) 3 GPS units (1 GPS unit per group)
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3 Geocache units (Tupperware can be used however, Lock-n-Locks are more visible and easier for students to find.)
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make sure that you hide all the geocaches in familiar areas where it is easy for students to access. Take pictures of the location before placing the cache and print these pictures out.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make sure the waypoints of the geocache locations are preset in the GPS devices.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each geocache should contain 3 pictures of the designated culture that students will research.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instructional Activities:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Assessment:** Each student will write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the three cultures. >
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Check all GPS units to ensure the waypoint have been properly set in the device.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Divide the class into three groups.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give the GPS unit to the group.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the activity to the students.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have students assign the jobs in their groups. For example, GPS reader, Map Expert, Speaker, etc.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give the picture of where the cache is hidden. Explain this is the absolute location and that the GPS will put you within 10 feet which is the relative location.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Send groups out to find their geocache.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After each group locates their cache, return to the classroom to determine which culture each group will research.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give students a fact sheet about the culture’s food, languages, and traditions containing facts, pictures, and websites for research.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each group will collaboratively write a paragraph on their culture using what they find from their research.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Speaker will present the group’s paragraph to the class.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Groups will fill in a Tree Map detailing each of the cultures from the class
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Each student will write a paragraph (about 6 sentences) comparing and contrasting the cultures on the Tree Map.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Closure/Review/Summary: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For the ticket out the door, students will write a new fact that they learned about one of the cultures.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sample Clues if studying Hispanic, Asian, and Native American Cultures. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Geocache #1** //Go Fast Feet First!//

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This geocache is hidden under the slide.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Geocache #2** //Put Everything Away//

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This geocache is hidden by the ball storage.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Geocache #3** //Go Quick and Don’t Monkey Around!//

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This geocache is hidden under the monkey bars.

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