Using GPS to teach more than accurate positions

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 241-246

  Johnson, Marie C ^a   Guth, Peter L ^b  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparatus; Education undergraduate; Field trips; Miscellaneous and mathematical geology; Summer field course

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FIELDWORK; GPS;

EID: 0036302889     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-50.3.241     Document Type: Article

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