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This study aimed at testing the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) at primary and secondary schools with the 6th and 9th grade students and understanding the attitudes of students towards GPS. The study was conducted in two primary and two secondary schools in Istanbul together with 98 students. In the study, a GPS activity was developed in two stages. In the first stage, the students were asked to locate the five chocolates hidden in their school yard by using the given coordinates with a GPS. In the second stage, the students determined the locations of different objects such as trees and waste baskets in and around their school yards with GPS and displayed their findings on GIS. A survey was conducted on students to receive their feedbacks about the exercise after its implementation. As seen in the study, the students were very interested in the GPS technologies and the overall exercise was found very entertaining, successful and useful by the majority of the students. As the study revealed, spatial technologies like GPS is a very important tool to make especially social science and geography lessons more student centered and activity based.

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