As soon as students complete their testing this week we will begin exploring a new project that has been in the works for quite some time. In order to further the geography education of my students I like to develop global projects for them to participate in. One hobby of mine is geocaching – placing [...]
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SuperScooper Skype
Last week we had a chance to Skype with our old friends the Scoopers in Dunedin, New Zealand. We are sending each other travel bugs. It will be great fun tracking them together as they make their way (finger’s crossed!) across the Pacific. They got a chance to show us “our” bug – a very [...]
Geocaching Update
Wow! What an amazing past two months we have had with our Geocaching Project. The students in Ms. Smith’s class have created a special page for their Dragon. Other bugs are headed to New Zealand (Trev’s Tag), Texas (Ramenstein), Australia (Kallista Jake), Illinois (Zion Mystery Sphere), and our latest release is bound for Kansas (John [...]
Geocaching Project Underway
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, [...]
Geocaching Challenge – Looking for Participants!
We are about to embark on what we hope will be a fun learning adventure and we’d like to invite nine other schools around the world to have some fun with us. We’ve purchased nine “travel bug” identification tags from geocaching.com that we will be attaching to some special tokens from Chalone Peaks Midle School. [...]
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