Geocaching yee!

Geocaching is like a little treasure hunt that can be played all over the world! What you do is go to the site (http://www.geocaching.com/) and go to hide and seek a cahe, type in your zip code in the appropriate box, setting the search radius to whatever you wish it to be; grab your GPS and or GPS enabled phone, type in the coordinates and follow them. However, geocaches will not just present themselves to you; its not called a treasure hunt for no reason. Some caches also vary in size from micro-large.

During this unit, I learned a lot about a GPS and how they gather their information from a few satellites that are orbiting earth. Also, some people learned how to type coordinates into the GPS. One thing we did was create a shape, get someone with a GPS that knew what they were doing and flagged (in the GPS) where we were standing. Thus creating a shape of some kind. What that taught is how to flagged areas, figure out how far on point was to another, and work the GPS a little.

The geocaching hunts were actually kind of exiting because it was my first time geocaching and I didn't know what to expect and it was pretty fun to have to go out and look for them; some people were pretty determined to find them! But me and my team found a total of 2 caches. The first one contained a few little plastic dinosaurs and a few coins; the second one had two fuzzy little moose with writing on the back (the writing was in a different language), two little card about geocaching, a quarter, and a geocache log for people who found it.