Geocaching and Education

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Geocaching and education.

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Presentation for my students who wants to use Geocaching in their lessons.

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Geocaching and education.

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Why Geocaching?

•First thing first

•Make a Gmail account

•Make a Delicious account

•Use Firefox for browsing

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How does it work? GPS

•Global Position System GPS

•Navigation Satellite Time and Ranging NAVSTAR

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How does it works?

35 satellites on 20.200 km heightsending radiowaves

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Accuracy (5 tot 10 m)

Position minimal 4 satellites Clear viewNot under heavy trees and large buildings (newest GPS are OK)

How does it work? GPS

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What is a GPS?

OUTDOOR

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on the boat

What is a GPS?

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Car navigation

What is a GPS?

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Fitness

What is a GPS?

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•Military

•Boats and planes

•Road builders

•Car navigation

•Outdoor, hunting, hiking

•...

Who is using a GPS?

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•Brings the driver from point A to B

•Drivers give in an address or landmark

•GPS is following an internal map

Car navigation

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•No compass

•No heights

•No waypoints

•No tracks

Car navigation

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•Electronic compass

•Working with waypoints and tracks

•User can make his own routes

Outdoor navigation

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•Brands

•Garmin

•Magellan

•Lowrance

•Silva

•...

Outdoor navigation

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Simple outdoor recievers

Black/whiteno cardsno compass and altitude meter for bike and hikers

What is a GPS?

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Expensive receivers

ColorWith mapswith compass and altitude meterExtern memory Bickers and hikers

What is a GPS?

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Maps for GPSTOPO maps for all countries

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Making Waypoints, routes en tracks

Maps for GPS

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Making Waypoints

Waypoints are points in the GPS receiver made by the userNumberSymbolText

Maps for GPS

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Making Routes

A route is a straight line between the waypoints in the GPS. Mostly from point 1 to 2 to 3 and so on

Maps for GPS

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Making Tracks

Tracks are crumbles for the GPS. Every meter or minute you can make a GPS to make a track from the place you are.

Maps for GPS

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Hights

Hight profile for biking or hiking

Maps for GPS

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Workshop

Using a GPS

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Geocaching

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Geocaching

Treasure hunting with a GPS

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What do you need?• GPS

• Cache description

• pencil

• goodies

• small trowel

• calculator

• outdoor clothing

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Where to find?

• on the internet

• www.geocaching.com

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Kinds of Caches

• Ordinary Cache

• Multi Cache

• Virtual Cache

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What’s inside a geocache?

• geocoins

• travel bugs

• notebook

• pencil

• toys

• ...

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www.geocaching.com

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REMINDERALWAYS fill in the notebook,

when you take something out of the cache put something back

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Workshop

Geocaching

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Google Earth

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Google Earth

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Download Google Earth

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Google Earth and GPS

Workshop