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.



Sunday, April 4, 2010

Jesse's Sample Tour on Google Earth

How to take a Google Earth Tour.

First click on the title, in this case “Jesse’s Tour”.

A question will come up “Do you want to open or save this file?

Open the file.

If Google Earth is downloaded, it should open right up.
If not downloaded, you will probably get a message asking you to download.
Once at Google Earth . . .
On the left side under the section called “Places.”
Look for the title that says jesse.kmz
To open click on the “+” sign.
Now click on the “+” that is next to the file folder that says “Jesse”.

To take an un-interrupted tour, double click the folder at the bottom of the “Places” box that has a “play” icon.

To take a tour includes Jesse’s narration, you’ll need click on each individual line, below Jesse’s folder. The placemarks (in this case thumbtacks) will take you to the location, the video camera icon allows you to hear the narration.

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