Our first year of homeschooling, one of my friends from church mentioned "geocaching" with her kids. I had never heard of it, so I asked her about it. Let me tell you, geocaching has REVOLUTIONIZED our homeschool & our field trip schedule! Geocaching is like a huge treasure hunt, and can be found in all 50 states & most foreign countries as well! One of the kids' grandmothers purchased a special geocaching GPS for us & we have found almost 100 of them to date. We love it because it not only gets us outside, which we use sometimes for P.E. as well (let me tell you, when you go to find the ones at a state park or forest, you are EXERCISING!!!) but we also love finding the little treasures tucked inside when we find the containers. We've found coins, military patches, assorted little trinkets from all over the world, LITERALLY. We have even used some of the items found, to do a little geography lesson (such as a miniature German doll). Sometimes we make it a science lesson, checking out various plants and trees along the way. At the end of our journey, the kids have practiced their handwriting by journaling what they saw and found that day.
The point of a geocache is to find a treasure, and leave a treasure. So we keep a supply in the car at all times; quarters, dimes, nickels, cool collector coins, stickers, any little thing will do really. Then you put your "team name" on the paper found inside each cache, with the date. You can log onto www.geocaching.com at anytime to create a FREE account; when you do your geocaching, log back on to record which cache's you found & upload a pic of your team with the cache (optional). It's neat to read the clues on each one before you go find it, too. We have had so much fun doing this. Highly recommend you check this one out!
This is one of the ones we had to HIKE for, but it was worth it! :)
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