Hi Alison,

Deborah Goodman, the owner of this group, is a friend and a Diigo friend. She has done lots of GPS and geocaching workshops around North Carolina. She has so much experience with geocaching in the classroom.

She was on the team which created a two day workshop for elementary teachers.

Two day workshop: Animals and Plants in North Carolina
http://tep.ecsu.edu/gps_nature_quest1.htm

Deborah also has wonderful ideas about integrating geocaching across the curriculum. You may want to send her a message.

Ideas:

Solve math problems to find the coordinates

Cache contains -- A writing activity, a math activity, a data collection activity, etc.

At each cache, teams of students collect data to add to a spreadsheet or database

Catawba County Schools (NC) has a great set of lesson plans:
http://www.catawba.k12.nc.us/pages/teacher_resources/gps_activities/displayall_grade_level.asp



Alison Hall wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have heard of geocaching, but haven't heard of it being used in schools very widely. What do you think are the uses and benefits of geocaching with students?

Provides links to "educaching" sites.

Podcast devoted to geocaching.

This may be of interest to the group. Kathy