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Something to Do This Weekend: Go Geocaching!

practical skills

16 Jan

Learning while GeocachingGeocaching is a little different than the sites I normally highlight, but I think its concept is so appealing to an educator that I had to share about it…

What is geocaching?  It is simply, using your GPS to find a certain location.  This may involve trekking through treacherous terrain or walking along a flatland trail.  What you find at the end of the hike — at the precise GPS point — may vary, but usually includes a waterproof box of some sort and a log book, where you mark that  you were there.

Geocaching

I’ll leave you to explore the Geocaching site, where you can input your zip code and start geocaching this weekend.  Happy hunting, um, caching!

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  1. Erica says

    January 16, 2009 at 11:56 PM

    cool concept! i don’t know if i have the guts to blindly go somewhere on GPS, though. (even though i drive that way all the time). i guess i should try everything once!

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  2. Barbara says

    January 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM

    Our family loves Geocaching! when we first started 4yrs ago I was amazed at the caches all over the world.

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  3. Kate says

    January 18, 2009 at 8:42 PM

    We have done a few of these, but being without a GPS system we instead do letterboxing. Its the same concept only they give you clues and directions to find the box. They also have you stamp their logbook and provide a stamp for you to put in your logbook. http://www.letterboxing.org or http://www.atlasquest.com are the two sites to go to for boxes to find.

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