Competency: Find a destination using the Internet

Linked Core Abilities:

LESSON PLAN

Activities:

1. PARTICIPATE in learning warm-up activities by asking the students to think about a place they do not know how to reach.

2. REVIEW Lesson Objectives

a. Explain how the Internet can save time when seeking to travel.

b. Describe how Internet direction tools work.

c. Explain why a leader should have good navigational skills.

3. REVIEW Key Words.

Define key word: GPS, destination, origin, and waypoint.

4. COMPLETE exercises to assess understanding of Key Words.

Ask the class leader to write the key words for the day on the board. The class leader then calls upon students for the correct definitions. The class leader can also test for understanding by asking students to use key words in a sentence.

5. PARTICIPATE in a lecture/discussion of the lesson.

Students practice using Internet tools to obtain directions.

6. COMPLETE practice exercises to assess understanding lesson concepts.

Each student is asked to find and print the directions to the location they identified during the warm-up.

7. PARTICIPATE in a summary of the lesson (Lesson Review)

1. How can good directions save gas and other resources?

2. When using Internet directions, what can go wrong?

3. Why do printed maps still have a valuable navigational role?

4. What are differences between urban and rural land navigation?