GPS Powered Team Building

You’ll search for a cache,Inside you’ll find a team…

Jo Ann Fjellman – Facilitator / Designer

Tanya Phillips – Course Designer / Technical Advisor

Purpose & IntentionsParticipate in an experiential educational

program that effectively models an engaged, participant-centered activity utilizing GPS receivers and technology.

Stimulate a blend of 21st Century Skills, competitive fun and collaborative learning elements that include problem solving, leadership qualities, decision making and communication components that are easily transferred back to their students.

Incorporate the benefits of collaboration and gain new knowledge and insights that stimulate creative thinking.

Have FUN, generate excitement, enthusiasm and transfer sustainable innovative learning design back in to the class room.

What is Geoteaming?Hi-tech outdoor “Discovery”

hunt.Requires teamwork and skill to

balance the natural tension between individual competitive drive AND team collaboration.

Team and Leadership training product designed by PLAYTIME Inc.

Created after the international sport: geocaching www.geocaching.com

Stimulate Creativity and Innovation!

“Play is important, not only to give our analytical brains a break, but to knit new pathways in our brain. Play excites the brain with neurotransmitters that promote nerve development and alignment, essentially reshaping the trails between different sections of our brain.” Stuart Brown, MD

Field Session Challenge Your team will use

Garmin GPS receivers, a URL webpage and/or Pocket PC’s to help you locate 20 cache locations in Arlington Echo Center .

The cache point value varies and is based on difficulty and distance.

Every cache may be found once by each team and in any order.

Physical Cache IF there is a Gold Card in

the container, take it!Gold = Extra Bonus Points(1)Code word = Regular Points

Write down the code word/answer on your answer sheet.

All team members must be present to take a card.

Take an Inspired team photo!

Return the cache Exactly as you found it.

Answer the question on the URL webpage or in the Pocket PC.

Write your correct answer on the Answer Sheet.(WRONG & Illegible ANSWERS = NO POINTS!)

Take a team photograph.

Virtual Cache

Interactive Cache Find the physical container for

the instructions. Call a Geotech if needed to complete your challenge!

Geotech’s to provide your Code Word for your Answer Sheet upon successful completion.

STEM Academy Goal Region 2

Ensure that all 20 cache locations have been successfully completed to earn the collaborative award.

Individual Team GoalEarn the most points from the course to WIN the TOP TEAM award!

Do it with style! – Be recognized as the MOST creative team and win the Best photograph(s) Award!

Team Goal

Ground Rules 1) Work as a team!

Stick together and support each other.Win AS a team not FOR the team.

2) Just a Few No’s! No Running.

No Losing your teammates.No Trashing the environment.No Bushwhacking.

3) Safety!Surfaces can be SLIPPERY especially when wet!

Ground RulesPhoto verify all of your finds with ALL members of your team other than the photographer at the “cache” location.

Ground Rules

Be On Time!! Return on time or lose 50% of your total revenue earned.

GARMIN Venture HC

Quit / Page

Power /Backlight

GPS AntennaZoom InZoom Out

Enter / RockerMenu / Find

GARMIN Venture HC Finding a Destination in the GPSPress Page – Main MenuSelect Find – Enter (Set-up)

Select Waypoints - EnterSelect Waypoint ECH000Press EnterWaypoint: ECH000 = Start & Finish

Select Go To - Enter

GARMIN Venture HCNavigation Pages

Map Page

Compass Page

Altimeter Page

Trip Computer

Customize:SpeedTime to Day (Game Clock)Waypoint at DestinationDist. to Destination

Distance (mi=miles, ft=feet)Accuracy(15 – 30 feet)“Direct” path to cache location (Set-up Options)

GPS Navigation

Move to activate directional arrow!Arrow going in circles = You are in the target ZONE!

Waypoint Name

Discuss in your team: What Happened? (Be prepared to report out) What was your team’s most

difficult challenge? Most successful strategy?

How did your team actually make decisions and take action?

What was the total group’s strategy for success?

What was your most memorable cache and why?

GPSSchool Based Highlights

Marshall Middle SchoolElaine Gillum

What is GPS Technology?Let’s let Tim & Mobey tell you

about that!

First, let’s learn about Longitude and Latitude:

Brainpop

Now let’s learn about GPSBrainpop

How did you do??

How did you

do??

Tell me more about GPS Technology

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More…. How GPS Works

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What’s a cache?There are 4 types of caches:1. Physical2. Virtual3. Multi4. Initiative

Class Goals *We want every cache found at least once by this class. *As a team you are competing for the most points, but as a class EVERY cache needs to be found. *Any class that successfully completes all the caches gets 25 extra credit points!

1. Go to Menu Screen

2. Hi-Light Mark3. Press Enter4. Note the name of

the waypoint5. Hi-light OK and

press Enter6. At the Waypoint

screen, press Enter

To Mark A Waypoint

GPS in the Classroom

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Resources: www.groundspeak.comhttp://gis-world.aacounty.orgwww.dnr.state.mn.us/shutdown.html As of midnight, June 30, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will be shutdown due to a state budget impasse.http://www.easygps.comEASY GPS for PC users - FREE SOFTWAREhttp://www.maccaching.com/ For MAC - May work similar to Easy GPS - FREE VERSIONhttp://www.maccaching.com/registration/A single-user license of MacCaching is only $15 (US)! http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.htmlDownload Google Earth for PC, Mac, or Linux

Additional Resources

Find a Geocacher:Parents, Friends, Associations, Clubs

Talk to Other Schools Other Districts Other States: Other Peers

Successful Participant - Centered Learning

Elements Game quality Crazy containersWorking togetherLots of small winsBuilt over timeClear goalsFocus on collaborationChaperone involvement

Principal involvementSchool spirit enhancedCelebration

Program Design Template

Program Goals: STEM Curriculum and 21 Century skillsSustainable learning componentsCooperation in the classroomSet the tone for a successful year

Instructional Days: (How many?)Classroom instruction - What topics?

What is a GPS Receiver? What is GIS?How do they work?How are they beneficial?

Demo Field Session – (Equipment & Caches)

Program Design Strategy

Game Day: (Things to consider)Goals: Collaboration &Team AchievementTeam Size Team Captains Parent ChaperonesPrincipal InvolvementRewards DurationDebrief/Mining for Learning

Incorporating 21st Century Skills

ACTION

REFLECTIONCONTINUATION

INTEGRATION

Doing the experience

Exploring the lessons

Transfer the learning from the experience to the other situations

Strategies to sustain the learning and change

Self Awareness & Reflection

A Learning Edge – Crafting a Debrief

WHAT Happened?SO WHAT does it mean ?NOW WHAT do you do

differently?

Discuss in your team: (Be prepared to report out)

Craft a few excellent and age appropriate debrief questions that engage thinking in one of these areas:CommunicationCreativity/InnovationStrategyLeadershipProblem SolvingDecision Making

Course Design Considerations Lay out: Hub & Spokes / Circle / Out & Back Location / Approach / Safety / Unique

Qualities Type of Cache: Physical, Virtual, Multi-Stage

Interactive Type of Container: Use your Imagination Specific Location Opportunities: Learning /

Fun Distance from Start/Finish: <1 mile to furthest

cache Distance Between Caches: 1/10th of a mile Number of Teams: Size of Teams: Ideal 3 - 6 Age/ Fitness of Participants: Home Command? Learning Element at Each Cache Waypoint Value

Course Design Core Elements:

Physical Course Components: Containers, Virtual, Multi-Stage,

InteractiveCodewords, Bonus Cards, Quiz Sheets

Technology:GPS ReceiversAerial Maps Cache Clue Sheet /PassportCameras Radios

Content:STEM - Environmental - Historical - Fun

Paper Clue Sheet Example WDV012 600/400 points Physical

 

WDV013 500 points VirtualHow many Orcas can you count fromwhere you are standing now?

Check your oil, check your fan don’t forget your radiator man!

Arlington Echo Outdoor Educational Center Example

GPS Receiver TechnologyMarking, Altering and Averaging

Waypoints

Naming Protocol – Your ChoiceFirst three letters of the course location and

three digit numbers. Example: AEC012

Press Enter Select Avg (average) - EnterWait 10 countsSelect OK – EnterSelect Default number name -Enter to open the on-screen Keypad make changesSelect OK and Enter

GPS Receiver TechnologyHow Do We?:

Downloading and Uploading Waypoints

Making and Utilizing Tracks

Making a Route (Strategic Plan)

CREATIVE WARM-UP: Stretch your thinking muscles

Guidelines for encouraging exploration and increasing the imaginative mindset.

Strive for quantity Seek wild and unusual ideas Build on others ideas Defer judgment – no criticism

New Team Formation: STEM

Design a BETTER Bathtub!

Make it REAL!

Subject Matter Brainstorm Go wild and wacky on ideas for using

GPS receivers and Geoteaming designs to reach your curriculum and classroom goals.

Reach for 35+ ideasSelect 5+ ideas that really hold possibility

Detail out these ideas for sharing with other teams.

All Group Discussion What lessons from today’s Geoteaming

experience can be transferred back to your classroom?

What are you most excited about initiating?

What additional resources or support do you think you will need?

Celebration!

AWARDS&

SLIDESHOW

Thank You!We hope you enjoyed your day and gained new insights and a few valuable lessons.

We hope to see you at future events.

Your Geoteaming StaffJo Ann FjellmanTanya Phillips

www.geoteaming.com