Last week we released two travel bugs on missions to visit project partner schools located in New Zealand and Australia. We’ve also made a new blog to track our trackables and record some fun geography and math activities we plan to do.
The first bug we released is headed to St. Clair School in Dunedin, New Zealand. Ms. Bee and her class of students will need to become code-breakers in order to determine where “Trev’s Tag” is headed.
The second bug, released a day later, is headed to Ms. Graunke’s class at Kallista Primary School. They are located in the Sherbrooke Forest, east of Melbourne, Australia. Ms. Graunke’s students will need to venture into the forest to find their bug.
Next week, we hope to release three more bugs. One will be headed to Vancouver Island, Canada, another to a high school near Chicago, and a third one to an elementary school in Texas. Please visit Mr. Miller’s Bug Tracker for more information, or to participate in future bug releases.
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Hi, all. Let me introduce myself. Currently I am the keeper of the Kallista Jake Travel Bug. I call him KJ. My user name is RangerG/75. I live in Southern California and fly for a U.S. freight company. I got interested in geocaching last year when my oldest son, Erik, introduced me to it. I’ve had a lot of fun caching and having the opportunity to do it all over the world. It’s been my pleasure to drag your bug around for the past month or so. I’ve asked Mr. Miller if I can hold on to him for a little bit longer and see if maybe we can’t add some miles and introduce him, and you, to some new and interesting places.
So, if any of you have questions or comments, fire away! Just remember that I’m old and that you need to use small words and short sentences. And, yes, I do speak Australian! I’ve had the pleasure to visit that great country many times.
G’day, Mates!
Frank
Hi there,
I am a student taking a part in your geocache to Vancouver Island. I hope that it get’s to us this year and if it doesn’t will we cancel it or keep it going? We have tons of places to hide a goecache like the big field or in the forest beside the school. Cant wait, Arwen
This sounds like a wonderful project! I hope it works out well for you — that the bugs keep moving along, so that it’s fun to track.
Math is one of my primary interests, so I’m curious what kinds of math you will be doing with the bugs. I guess I will need to follow the adventure, too!
Hi Denise!
Thanks for the comment. We are looking forward to visiting your blog this week too and checking out some of your homeschooler’s work. Blogging is perfect for homeschoolers!
We will be using Google Earth with its ruler and path feature to determine exact distance as well as geometric measurements. We will be posting all of the bugs on one Google Map and posting it on our tracking page at http://geobugtracker.edublogs.org/
Mr Miller – I want to applaud you for supplying your students with such a wonderful learning opportunity and also involving other students around the world with it to, I will be following this with interest (as will our students) and we’d love to be involved.
Hi Mr. Webb and class!
We’ve got a bug for you and I will get it set up and on its way by the time you return from break!
What a fantastic project – thank you so much for including us. The project, your class and geocaching were the topics of many discussions last week in our classroom. We even had a geocacher come to speak to us.
I even went out a little GPS yesterday and am off to find my first local geocache! We are definitely learners and look forward to you helping us along. We are also looking forward joining in with your geography and maths activities. As we get better, perhaps we can pose you some problems as well?
Fantastic! We are looking forward to it.
OMG, too cool. What a great project. I am so excited to follow this.
Thanks Pam,
We are having fun in the early stages and I hope the enthusiasm carries on throughout the year. This is another terrific batch of students and I feel fortunate!