Charting+New+Adventures+with+GeoCaching

** Roanoke County Public Schools ** Meg Swecker, Holly Ireland, Tina Coffey http://geocache.itrtblog.com Bedford is also a resource, if needed. It hooks all learners Groups of 4-6 students with an adult who shows the students how to use the GPS. They work off of satellites. Plant activities around the school yard. Students geocache around to find the tasks. Students work as a group to find and solve the problems. Management is usally not an issue. The cache is just a box with the contents inside. Clipboard with tasks for recording. Groups = navigator – gps; ground control – place cache back exactly back in the same spot; recorder to write the answers on the clipboard (or stick to the Velcro). Examples support all aspects of curriculum. Middle schools have done CSI type examples. Social Studies – continents, map skills, native Americans, State History. Special Areas – Art, Musical instrument families, Use of Bloom’s Taxonomy
 * Chart New Adventures with GeoCaching **
 * Science ** – weather, seasons, types of rocks, phases of the moon, simple and compound machines.
 * Language Arts ** – letter/sound id; homophones; synonyms/antonyms; parts of speech.
 * Math ** – problem solving; money concepts, time concepts, measurement,fact families.