Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Frisbee Golf and GPS

This lesson was created by Lane Gunderson (Harris-Lake Park School District) for students from ninth to twelfth grade. As a result of this lesson plan, students will integrate geography skills and concepts into a P.E. activity.

Discipline/Subject

Human Geography

Mathematics

Computers/Technology

Other Discipline

Theme

GIS/GPS/Remote Sensing

Region

None specified

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Region

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

2. How to use mental maps to organize information about people places, and environments in a spatial context

14. How human actions modify the physical environment

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

GE 1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments

GE 6. Understand how culture affects the interaction of human populations through time and space