Geocaching in the Classroom
I hide temporary caches, just for my students, on the school campus. They don't have toys or travel bugs in them, rather they are designed around content based learning outcomes. I have the students locate cachesthat hold pieces of a story to sequence and put in order, letter stamps to use to spell out vocabulary words, science experiments, math problems, and more problem solving activities. The challenge is to work in a group to find the caches, solve the problems in the caches together, all while using handheld GPS devices and being active outside.
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