1. Geocaching Treasure Hunting on a Whole New Grid Salisbury Township School District Jennifer Brinson Salisbury Township School District Jennifer Brinson

2. What is Geocaching? High Tech Treasure Hunt Uses GPS Units Find “caches” based on longitude and latitude Great for the classroom Great for a lifetime

3. GPSGPS Global Positioning System Approx. $100-$500 Garmin eTrex Ability to sync units with your computer and to websites

4. How does GPS work? Uses satellites - there are 24 over the earth - we need three Interference can come from: indoors, heavily wooded, tall buildings, atmospheric conditions Our units should get you within 2-5 feet of an exact location

5. Beginnings of Geocaching May 2000 - first cache is placed in Oregon Today: 1,219,685 caches all over the world 1,391 in the Lehigh Valley alone

8. GuidelinesGuidelines #1: Tread lightly and leave no trace #2: Replace cache in original hiding spot #3: Cache In, Trash Out #4: Take One, Leave One

9. Geocaching Lingo Muggles: non- geocachers Swag: trade items (stuff we all get) Cache: the container with the clue/log

10. Geocaching in Life Establish an account on: http://www.geocaching.co m http://www.geocaching.co m http://www.geocaching.co m Search by city, zip, state, place in the world Record the lat/long -- and read the hints!

11. Let the adventure begin Either sync your GPS unit or write down the location Get as close to the lat/long as you can Use the compass page to get with a few feet Use your “geosense” to find the cache (could be in a tree, under a rock, in some leaves, under a bridge -- be on the lookout)

12. CachesCaches

13. ExtrasExtras Travel Bugs & Geocoins

14. Geocaching in Education Map Skills - Latitude and Longitude Using a compass Add the lesson components

15. Lesson Components Language Arts: Fill caches with definitions of vocab and have students match the terms Fill caches with story lines from lit. and have students put the story lines in chrono. order or match to appropriate works Fill caches with various terms, ideas, character names and have students write a story using the items in the caches

16. Lesson Components Science: Fill caches pictures of endangered species of animals and decide which they would either keep on the list or take off the list and defend their answers. Fill caches with pictures of chemical process (ice melting, chain rusting) and have students identify the process in the picture. http://sciencespot.net/Pages/classgpslsn.html

17. Lesson Components Social Studies: Fill caches various events in history and put the events in chrono. order and explain Fill caches pictures of supplies for a trip (exploration) and decide which supplies to keep based on the journey (ie. rope, extra canvas, fresh water, food, fishing gear) Fill caches with event that lead up to a “mysterious” ending (ie. who shot JFK) and have the kids solve the mystery

18. Lesson Components Math: Fill caches problems that students have to solve - the answer could be the next waypoint number they have to find Fill caches with steps of a multi-step problem and have students put the steps in the correct order Fill caches with steps from a geometry proof and have the students arrange the correct order

19. Lesson Components World Language: Fill caches with clues to a story written in Spanish or German and have the students tell the story (can be done English to Sp/Germ as well) Fill caches with pictures of locations from various countries and students have to figure out what country their clues are from Fill caches various Spanish or German words (a mix of nouns, verbs, adj) and the students have to write a story using those words.

20. Lesson Components FCS/Nutrition: Fill caches with pictures of various food items and have the students locate them correctly on the food pyramid Fill caches steps to baking a recipe and have students put the steps in the correct order according to their knowledge of measuring, mixing dry then wet, baking, cooling, etc. Fill caches with items from a food label and have the students discuss whether or not the item is “nutritious” based on what they found or not.

21. Lesson Components Art/Music: Fill caches with stanzas of music and have kids arrange the stanzas in the proper order Fill caches with pictures of various works of art and have students match them with pictures of artists

22. Lesson Components General Ideas: Geo-Bingo: give bingo cards to the kids with the questions in the spaces - they have to find the caches with the answers that they need to form a “bingo” Fill caches Give the kids the word search and put the words in the caches - when they find the caches they will know what words to look for in the search Fill caches pictures or terms and have the kids determine what they all have in common OR which one doesn’t belong (people who were assassinated, certain elements on the periodic table, species of animals)

23. Resources:Resources: http://www.geocaching.com http://www.factsfacts.comhttp://www.factsfacts.com/geocacher.htm http://www.factsfacts.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching http://geocacher-u.com http://pageocaching.wikispaces.com/

24. Thanks to.... Digital Aces: Trevor Moyer, Alex Foulke, and Jason Carne, Kazim Rajmohammed, Sean Zimmerman, Sue bin Lee, Eric Nguyen, Ashley Labdik, Kelly Esslinger, and Garred Collins Bridget Belardi, Kristin Hokanson, and Chris Champion - DEN STARs and Geocaching gurus Randy Ziegenfuss & STSD - for providing the tools