GeoCaching has become extremely popular in recent times. It is an "outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a GPS (shown above in yellow) or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches" (our version, in pink, above), anywhere in the world."
For Nazareth School District, we used this activity in several instances. Several 4th grade teachers first learned how to use the GPS receivers we had in their own activity where Melissa and I hid meaningless caches with a list on them for the participants to mark off. They learned how to read the Longitude and Latitude and how to navigate to the next cache.
Then, their students learned how to use the GPS receivers, and worked in small groups to find caches with information about Nazareth or another subject in them. They used stickers to mark that they had found the cache and worked together to do so. This was done with several groups of students through out my internship.
The caches were hidden around the school's grounds and this made it slightly difficult due to close proximity, but the students still learned a new technology, new information about a subject, and had fun while doing it!
GeoCaching has become extremely popular in recent times. It is an "outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a GPS (shown above in yellow) or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches" (our version, in pink, above), anywhere in the world."
For Nazareth School District, we used this activity in several instances. Several 4th grade teachers first learned how to use the GPS receivers we had in their own activity where Melissa and I hid meaningless caches with a list on them for the participants to mark off. They learned how to read the Longitude and Latitude and how to navigate to the next cache.
Then, their students learned how to use the GPS receivers, and worked in small groups to find caches with information about Nazareth or another subject in them. They used stickers to mark that they had found the cache and worked together to do so. This was done with several groups of students through out my internship.
The caches were hidden around the school's grounds and this made it slightly difficult due to close proximity, but the students still learned a new technology, new information about a subject, and had fun while doing it!
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