High School Learning with Apple #16: Using Apple Maps

Jennifer Orton (@jorton) and I met at ADE institute in 2023 and have been working on compiling lessons for high school teachers using MacBooks or iPads in class. Jennifer uses iPads, and I use MacBooks, and in our collaboration, we realized that small adjustments can be made to apply the lessons in each environment. Over the next 30 days, we’ll post one lesson idea each day!

Lesson Idea #16: Using Apple Maps

Sample book page showing the Empire State Building and measurements to calculate

Every teachers favorite question from a student is "When am I ever going to use this?". By using Apple Maps to show measurements between buildings and heights, students can use their geometric formulas to calculate missing sides and angles of triangles in the real world.

Students searched for each provided landmark in Apple Maps and took a screenshot while using the 3D filter/mode. All work was then completed on that screenshot and added to a Keynote slide.

By using Apple Maps, we also help students gain some identifying knowledge of landmarks around the world.

The Empire State Building with a triangle showing the distance between two buildings, the height, and missing hypotenuse

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December 17, 2024

What an awesome application of the Pythagorean Theorem in the real world!

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