Geocaching: "Gotta Catch Them All!"
2014 Sharyland Education Foundation Grant Recipient
World
Geography teachers, Mrs. Dora Lucio, Ms. Stephanie Zmuda, Mrs. Babie
Ann Sandoval-Longoria, and Mr. Robert Barbosa, were recipients of a 2014
Sharyland Education Foundation Grant for their Geocaching: "Gotta Catch
Them All!" Project. The teachers received $972.62 for their project and
will begin its implementation starting November 2014.
Project Description:
Geocaching,
a worldwide hobby, is treasure hunting for our modern age using GPS.
With our grant, students will participate in a geocaching hunt. They
will use a GPS receiver to find geocaches, or clue markers, hidden in
absolute locations that will be located using latitude and longitude
coordinates. Rather than using smartphones, GPS receivers will be used
because of their increased accuracy to locate coordinates. The students
will conduct their hunt across campus utilizing their skills learned in
our World Geography class. Once successfully completed, they will create
their own geocaching hunt and challenge other groups to successfully
complete it.
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill