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.



Monday, April 5, 2010

How to Visit Our Geocaching.com Page


Please visit the Mapleton Otters Journal on www.geocaching.com.
Our user name is: Mapleton Otters
Our password is: otters

Once you are there, click on “My Account”. Inside “my profile”, click “trackable items” (yours). This should lead you to links that show mileage and current locations of our travel bugs. The site also allows you to click on google earth to follow the path and travels of our travel bugs.

Links lead you to entries for our travel bug, cache, etc. The site also allows you to click on google earth to follow the path of our travel bugs.

Clicking on the title of this post will take you to geocaching.com.
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