Workshops

EarthCaching: Using GPS to Enhance Your Geography, Science, and Earth Science Classroom

• Murfreesboro - Saturday, April 12, 2008

The Tennessee Geographic Alliance is hosting free, half-day workshop for K-12 teachers on EarthCaching: Using Global Positioning Satellite Systems to Enhance your Geography / Science / and Earth Science Classrooms. It will be held on Saturday, April 12, 2008 on the MTSU campus in Murfreesboro. EarthCaching is part of the world-wide adventure game of Geocaching. It takes people,with the aid of GPS units, to places where they can learn about some aspect of Earth and, in the process, teaches them about navigation, map use, and the earth science and geography of unique places. Some of these places are in our own backyards.

articipants in the workshops will receive a detailed workbook that includes instruction and classroom activities. They will also have access during the school year to loaner GPS units through the workshop coordinator, Keith Bell, professor of Geography at Volunteer State Community College.

The workshops are funded by the National Geographic Education Foundation with support from the Geological Society of America and Groundspeak, Inc. Additional support is provided by the Department of Geosciences at MTSU and the Department of Geography at UTK.

CLICK HERE for more information and an application.

Contact Information

Kurt Butefish, Coordinator
Tennessee Geographic Alliance
304 Geography Bldg.
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925

Phone: 865-974-4841
Email: kbutefis@utk.edu