1. How to teach GPS and have fun while doing it
How to teach GPS and have fun while doing it! Keeping students engaged and accountable Leslie Hoskins, COMS Margaret Winn, COMS

2. Objectives: Integrating GPS into O&M Ideas to make GPS fun
Ideas to keep students engaged and accountable
Ideas to incorporate interns or volunteers

3. Integrating GPS into O&M
Familiarization to the device
Listening
Button pushing
Segment Identification
Creating points of interest
Routes to personal POI’s
Routes to addresses
Open area travel
Mystery lesson/Scavenger hunt

4. Familiarization to GPS
Hardware
Software
Problem solving/reset
Who uses GPS currently?
Does anyone use GPS to give their parents or friends directions?
Partner up and help each other locate buttons.
Candy or reward to those that participate answering questions.

5. Picture description: picture of Trekker Breeze+

7. Listening Discuss the use of headphones
Appropriate times to tune out the GPS
What information does the GPS provide when not pushing any buttons?
Clarify language
GPS as a secondary device

9. Picture description: students crossing street with canes and GPS devices

10. Button pushing Key describer mode Where am I? When to push buttons?
When not to push buttons?
Previewing a route

11. Segment Identification
GPS turned off
Students off the bus
Establish GPS reception
Identify parallel street
Identify two nearest intersections
Students cannot get back on the bus until they can correctly identify their location
Why is this an important task?

12. Picture description: map of downtown Rochester with arrows representing segment IDs

13. Creating Points of Interest
Make first landmark at the main building
Drive around making 5 to 10 landmarks
Have students create their own landmarks as a group
Chewbacca’s house
Harry Potter’s apartment
Everyone create a landmark at the same time
Bus does not move until all students have created the landmark

14. Picture description: map of downtown Rochester with POIs labeled A-E

15. Routes to Points of Interest
How to create a route to a landmark?
How many landmarks do we have?
How do we know which direction to travel first?
One at a time to be sure everyone has the correct directions.
Randomly call on students to provide next instruction.
Make wrong turns, get “lost”, what do we do now?

16. Routes to addresses This can be a very tedious process
Try breaking up into smaller groups
Discuss which buttons represent which letters
Fun locations with a purpose
Ice cream
Slushies
Bus does not move until all students have the address programed
Students provide the directions

19. Open Area Travel As the crow flies College campus Create landmarks
Travel to and from landmarks using clock face directions
Independent exercise or in groups of two
Realistic routes

20. Picture description: Oakland University court yard

22. Scavenger Hunt Competitive Teamwork Clues Mystery landmarks
Fish theme activities
Interns develop scavenger hunt

24. Extra Activities Trivia Night
True/False. The GPS will tell you when it is safe to cross a street.
True or False  A GPS device is used to aid in directional travel, and should not be a replacement for cane or guide dog.
What does it mean when the Trekker says; you will be guided as the crow flies?
How do you make a landmark on the Trekker?
How does the GPS know where you are located?
What does GPS stand for?
When is it not appropriate to use a GPS while traveling on a route?
How many maps does each SD card hold?
How do you create a route to a landmark using the Trekker Breeze?
 What company makes the Trekker Breeze?
How many buttons does the Trekker Breeze have?
Trivia Night
Open Area-Bear Lake, fishing, and tandem biking
GPS check on final day
Send the manual to all students in accessible formats

25. Questions?
What are ways in which you have had success keeping students engaged and having fun?

26. Leslie Hoskins, COMS
Margaret Winn, COMS