Geocaching Part 5: Creating My First Geocache Project

I have enjoyed being a member of the geocacher's community. When it comes to technology, I look for ways various digital tools can be used in the educational setting. This spring I created a project called Geocacher Surveys and finally opening it up for participation. I wanted to wait until the end of the 2009-10 school year which is a good time to prepare for use during 2010-11 and beyond.

In this project, students use surveys to collect and analyze data. This project uses geocaches to locate folks to take one or more of the surveys on this site. Once geocachers participate by taking a survey or two, they can drop the information card into another cache they visit to help spread the word. I created a wiki with information about this project. There are several ways that teachers, students and geocachers can become part of this project:

• create surveys that the results can be used in the classroom using Google Forms and set for everyone to be able to see the results
• duplicate and distribute cards in caches
• take surveys and pass the cards along
• utilize/analyze the information submitted

This is a picture of the card.
It is my hope that you can participate in this project or send on to someone who you feel may be interested. Post replies to this post if you have other project ideas using geocaching!