I am an Earth Science Teacher in Pennsylvania. I don't use it regularly but I do use it. To start with, a regular car gps (such as garmin) works pretty well. You don't need anything super expensive to have fun with geocaching. Our school purchased about a dozen cheap gps units. To start the kids off with the gps units I hide six tupperware containers around the school grounds. I break the group up (usually 2 per unit) and have them pick an envelope. Each envelope points to a different tupperware container. You will have to start the groups at different times or they will just follow each other. Each container contains a new set of coordinates that will lead them to the next. After they know how to use them, I usually include a geocache in one of my fieldtrips. This year I am planning to hide some of my own so others can see and learn about the rock formations in the area. I will then be able to include them in all of my field trips. Hope this helps. It is an addicting habbit and the kids love it. Anything to get them away from the x-box and outside is fantastic. Good work.
Educational Geocaching
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I am an Earth Science Teacher in Pennsylvania. I don't use it regularly but I do use it. To start with, a regular car gps (such as garmin) works pretty well. You don't need anything super expensive to have fun with geocaching. Our school purchased about a dozen cheap gps units. To start the kids off with the gps units I hide six tupperware containers around the school grounds. I break the group up (usually 2 per unit) and have them pick an envelope. Each envelope points to a different tupperware container. You will have to start the groups at different times or they will just follow each other. Each container contains a new set of coordinates that will lead them to the next. After they know how to use them, I usually include a geocache in one of my fieldtrips. This year I am planning to hide some of my own so others can see and learn about the rock formations in the area. I will then be able to include them in all of my field trips. Hope this helps. It is an addicting habbit and the kids love it. Anything to get them away from the x-box and outside is fantastic. Good work.