NYS Museum After School Program at Lincoln Park Nature Caches
What are they learning?
Shyreik, Jelani, Siena, Bess, Hailea (and Cheeco), Patrick, Laiana, Vanessa, Austin, Hannah and Rondu all found Photo Points at Lincoln Park.
| Parallax describes the way that objects seem to change position with respect to each other when the observer moves and views the objects from a different angle |
They set out to learn about GPS and urban trees. In the process, they learned about parallax. It wasn't easy to find the locations at first. They had to learn how to use the GPS device and to make visual observations.
As the season progressed, they recorded the urban landscape changing from winter to spring. Different plants turned green in progression as they put out leaves at different times. Some flowered first, then turned green. Others stayed green all year.
As they recorded the same photographs in a second year, they saw that the maple trees turned green very early.
The 2008 team goes on a hunt...
Who can find it first? |
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Hannah, Hailea and Rondu (all age 11) navigate past the Community Garden |
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Rondu takes the photograph after they agree that they're at the right spot. |
The 2007 team learns a lot about GPS...
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"I learned how you look at a compass and how you get to different places with GPS." Laiana (in yellow), age 7
"I learned how to actually find an exact spot." Siena, age 11 |
 Nia follows the heading |
" I liked looking at everything." Vanessa, age 8 |
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Patrick, age 10, felt good to find the right spot. While his partner, Austin, age 8, had a good time just being outside. |
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Jelani, age 12, put a lot of thought into it and learned that "Satellites are cool." |
"I learned about location" Hailea (in blue), age 10 |
" I think it's cool how you can know exactly where anyplace in the world is by GPS." Bess, age 10 |
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