Students at Mapleton Elementary used GPS receivers and geocaching to learn the bones of the human body!
Geocaching is an activity that combines technology, geography, and treasure hunting. Geocachers both hide and seek containers called “caches” all around the world. The website, www.geocaching.com helps geocachers enter coordinates, riddles and clues for caches they hide, but also find coordinates for caches they want to find.
Mapleton Geocaching Project
The students have their own cache tucked away on a country road somewhere in Mapleton. We have had 49 geocachers visit our cache, log in and trade treasures from our box.
Students are also tracking the mileage of their “travel bugs” as they travel around the world. The bugs are metal tags with a tracking number that fellow geocachers pick up and move to another cache at a different location. The website is used to log all the movement and miles of the bugs. We use “Google Earth” and maps to study the travels of our bugs.
Through this project the students have received communication from other worldwide participants encouraging the students and telling them about the places fellow geocachers are traveling.
Students are also tracking the mileage of their “travel bugs” as they travel around the world. The bugs are metal tags with a tracking number that fellow geocachers pick up and move to another cache at a different location. The website is used to log all the movement and miles of the bugs. We use “Google Earth” and maps to study the travels of our bugs.
Through this project the students have received communication from other worldwide participants encouraging the students and telling them about the places fellow geocachers are traveling.
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