i Pod Touch Scavenger Hunt!

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Scavenger Hunt Math Fun using the iPod touch

Purpose: Incorporating Technology in PE
There were many skills practiced during this activity including: collaboration, communication, problem solving, math, and geography (knowing North, South, East, West) Students got a great aerobic workout running all over the school grounds trying to be the first team to collect all the hidden letters and unscramble them to spell the right word.
iPod touch, iPod nano, iPhones, or other mobile devices capable of playing digitally reproduced sound that you have recorded.

I created a scavenger hunt for my PE students called Math Fun. I created 7 clues with corresponding "treasure spots" where I left 7 markers each with a letter on them in every spot. Students worked in teams of 2-4 and used iPods to listen to 7 different pre-recorded audio tracks where I described a math problem and directions to where each "treasure" was hidden. (GarageBand was used to record the scavenger hunt clues ahead of time and iTunes was used to sync the scavenger hunt to the iPods.) When teams found all 7 "treasures" their final task was to unscramble the letters into the key word.

There were many skills practiced during this activity including: collaboration, communication, problem solving, math, geography(knowing North, South, East, West) Students got a great aerobic workout running all over the school grounds trying to be the first team to get all 7 letters and unscramble them to spell the right word. All teams were given something for their efforts, winning teams were rewarded with small prizes. Students were engaged and extremely excited about this activity. The use of the iPod touch brought a high level of excitement to our digital native students of today.

Students with disabilities were paired with other students to participate in the activity.

You are only limited to your imagination when it comes to creating clues to best fit your school grounds or surrounding area. Public parks and play grounds would be great places to create activities such as this.

Be sure students are aware of their directions, North, South, East, West. Be sure they are given a crash course in the use of the device you will give them to listen to the clues to the scavenger hunt on. Remind students not to take a clue from a hiding place if they have not solved the clue. They will get mixed up as to which clues they have listened to and which ones they have not. For example if one team sees another team find a clue and they chose to just "pick it up" they will not be sure which clue it was on the description of clues located on the i pod touches.

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Scavenger Hunt: Math Fun Elementary PE Using i Pod Touch!


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Professional Growth November 2010

On November 15, 16, I attended my third NAHPERD conference. My first NAHPERD conference I attended with the hopes of learning something new to bring back to my Elementary Physical Education classes. The second NAHPERD conference I attended I decided I had some things I thought other physical education teachers around the state might be interested in learning about, so I submitted a proposal to present. To my surprise my proposal was accepted and I presented on how I am using technology in my PE classes. I received many positive comments on the material I presented, so I am continuing with my quest to implement and encourage other educators around the world to incorporate technology into their PE curriculum's. I am a huge supporter of using Mac products and would have a tremendously hard time conducting my PE classes without the use of my Mac, which has become attached to my hip. My third NAHPERD conference found me serving on the board of directors in the sports and PE division, as well presenting another session on the uses of technology in Physical Education, specifically the uses of Garage Band and how it can be used easily to make podcasts. I use podcasts in my PE curriculum almost on a weekly basis. The power of podcasting has served as a great organization tool, management tool, and an engagement tool for me as a teacher, as well as to my students who learn and think naturally through technology. I know great things will continue to happen as I continue to learn more and more about different ways to incorporate technology into my curriculum.