Urban, Suburban, or Rural? a GPS cache activity: by Hope Vincent Social Studies GLE 14

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Urban, Suburban, or Rural? a GPS cache
activity by Hope VincentSocial Studies GLE 14
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Urban CommunityWhat do you see in an urban
community?
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Baton Rouge is an Urban Community.
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Urban Communities have lots of things to do and
places to visit
parks
restaurants
large buildings
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Suburban CommunityHow is the suburban community
similar to the urban community? How is it
different?
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Port Allen is a Suburban Community.
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Suburban Communities have lots houses.
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Rural CommunityHow is a rural community
different from both the urban and suburban
communities?
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Erwinville is an rural Community.
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Rural Communities are mostly fields and farming
areas.
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Your mission

• Use the coordinates provided to locate all the
  clues to the different communities. Once you
  have located your cache, read about the character
  and determine which community they live in
  rural, suburban, or urban.
• Gather all your clues and then race back to the
  classroom to see if your answers are correct. We
  will go over them together.
• The race is on. GOOD LUCK to all!
• The winners get a prize!

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Tell us about your community.

• Use Skype to visit with other children or adults
  that live in different types of communities.
• Compare their communities to the community in
  which you live.

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A Day in the Life

• Imagine that you are one of the characters that
  you discovered in the geocaching activity.
• Write a diary entry from a day in the life of
  that character including details about what that
  character might see and do in his/her community.

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Teachers Only

• The following slides are the clues that go into
  the caches. You will need to print the slide
  show where you have 4 pages per slide, then you
  could easily cut out the following slides to
  place into the caches. You will have to set up
  your own coordinates for the caches.
• Quick Tip to print 4 per slide you go to File,
  Print, and (on the left) click where it says
  print what. Then click on handouts. Then
  you can choose how many slides per page you would
  like to print, depending on the size you would
  like.

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Charlie

• Charlie lives on a farm and wakes up early every
  morning to milk his cow. What type of community
  do you think Charlie lives in?

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2. Amy

• Amy jets out of her apartment and swings by the
  donut shop for breakfast, before catching a taxi
  on her way to school. What type of community do
  you think Amy lives in?

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3. Eric and John

• Erics neighbor, John, walks over to his house
  to meet him so they can walk to the bus stop
  together. Everyone from the neighborhood meets
  there to catch the bus together for school. What
  type of community do you think Eric and John live
  in?

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4. Lisa

• Lisa has to walk to school through a sugar cane
  field. What type of community do you think Lisa
  lives in?

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5. Joe

• Joes mom doesnt really like to cook. So, for
  almost every meal they walk across the busy city
  streets to a diner. What type of community do
  you think Joe lives in?

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Answer Key

1. Charlie rural
2. Amy urban
3. Eric and John suburban
4. Lisa rural
5. Joe - urban

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Cache Integration Short Lesson PlanLesson Title
Urban, Suburban, or Rural?Subject Social
Studies 3rd grade Brief description of
Lesson Part I Power point TTW show powerpoint
to class introducing the terms urban, suburban,
and rural.TTW introduce caches and GPS to
students explaining activity (through
powerpoint). Part II Cache SearchCharacters
will be placed in the caches and their lives will
be described in the cache. TLW work with
partners to visit the caches and record which
community each character lives in. The class
will review characters and their
communities Part III A Day in the LifeTLW
research one characters type of community
further and write a diary entry from a day in
that characters life, including evidence of what
to do and see in that type of community from
Skype/research. Materials Needed (including
electronic templates) Powerpoint introducing
topicContainer for cachesCharacters and where
they live (to put in caches) Name Hope
VincentEmail Address hvincent_at_wbrschools.k12.la.
us