GPS and Geocaching – #TMSLF2010
I’ve spent the last two days at the Scottish Learning Festival, a fantastic collection of educators, organizations, and ideas. I’ve attended several sessions and wandered around the exhibition, but my...
View ArticleGPS and Geocaching – How to get started help documents
Today I had the opportunity to present at the Growing Greener Future Conference #ggfc I shared how to use GPS and Geocaching in the Classroom. I’ve written all sorts of posts about how to use...
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K-12 Online Conference Presentation – GPS and Geocaching #k12online10
I am very pleased to be able to contribute to the K12 Online Conference this year. My presentation is all about GPS and Geocaching in the Classroom. In the video I shared an overview of what...
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BrainPOP – Guest Blogger – Hide and Seek: BrainPOP goes Geocaching!
I’m a guest blogger on the BrainPOP UK blog – POPtalk today! I wrote all about GPS and Geocaching and how I’ve used Brainpop as a part of my lessons! Check it out here:...
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Viking Geocaches–Audio, Collaboration, and GPS
Teaching Primary 1 is a whole new experience for me, and I’m loving it. The kids are full of energy and love to learn. When I introduced my favourite project, using GPS in the classroom, they were...
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GPS and Geocaching with P1–The Very Hungry Caterpillar Butterfly Lesson
I love to tie Geocaching in with a larger lesson to bring an element of outdoor play and physical activity. This lesson is all about literature, science, art, listening, working together, and of...
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Teaching World War II through Geocaching
I presented at Teachmeet Ayr #tmayr last week as part of a tour through the west of Scotland. I talked about using geocaches to bring historical locations and artefacts into learning. There are...
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Design your own Geocache–Teachmeet Beyond
At Teachmeet Beyond I ran a session about GPS and Geocaching. We had the opportunity to design, build, hide, and retrieve geocaches. While building and designing we talked about the pedagogy behind...
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Geocaching Spelling
What do students do when they head out the door with a GPS, ink pads, and a clipboard? – Spelling on the playground!Each group had a clipboard with key words from stories we have been reading. On...
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Brain Pop–Blowing Your Mind
I am very excited to again be featured on the Brainpop UK Blog. Last time I wrote a blog post about using the Estimating Distances Brainpop Video as part of a geocaching lesson. This time I’ve written...
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Geocaching–Sequencing and Comics
My new P7 class has caught on to geocaching remarkably quickly. They can use the equipment after a short instruction session, we are working together in teams of 5, and they are enjoying getting...
View ArticleGuest Post on Free Technology for Teachers
I was invited by Richard Byrne to guest post on his amazing Free Technology for Teachers site. I wrote all about geocaching, giving an overview of how you can use the geocaching.com network, and travel...
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Nature Art Geocaching
While my class was on their residential camping trip one of my students picked up a pine cone and commented that it looked like a paint brush. He told me that we should do a lesson painting with...
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Cash Caches
An activity that I’ve done several times with classes in Canada and several schools in Scotland is Cash Caching. The idea is that you put coins and money based math problems in the geocaches. The...
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Basemaps for Garmin GPS
It’s easy to use GPS on compass mode having students follow the arrow as the distance counts down in the units of your choice, but GPS has great potential for mapping and orienteering skills, you just...
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World War II Geocaches
My pupils have been learning all about World War II, so I designed a geocaching activity to review and reinforce some key ideas and put a few new ideas into their minds to spark some curiosity. I...
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Timeline Geocaches – WW2
We were learning about the major events of World War 2 and needed a hands on way to organize the events to see not only the progression of the war, but just how long it actually was. We used caches the...
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Create Your Own Geocaches
I set the students a homework task of creating their own geocaches and I was thrilled with the result. They had to think through hideability, camouflage, waterproofing, and general hardiness. Enjoy...
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Geocaching with Dinosaurs
My favourite lesson! Twice now I’ve taken on the Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins Geocaching lesson. The original idea came from educaching.net – a fabulous resource which really helped me get going...
View ArticleAn Elementary Classroom in the 21st Century
Below is my presentation on what an Elementary Classroom could look like today. It is organized around 3 topics: Connect, Play and Create An Elementary Classroom in the 21st Century on Prezi
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