Name______________________________________ Project Due Date: September 30
Project Description: Demonstrate your understanding of how geocaching relates to math & science,
social studies, language arts, and reading.
Prepare one of the following:
-a newspaper article describing what you've learned in each subject area as it relates to
geocaching.
-a poster and a speech describing what you've learned in each subject area as it relates to
geocaching.
-a digital representation describing what you've learned in each subject area as it relates to
geocaching.
Digital
Your job is to utilize a website and/or program to create a digital representation of what you've
learned from the geocaching unit. Options may be: prezi, animoto, powerpoint, or other program
that you have experience with.
Requirements:
-proper spelling, grammar, mechanics.
-At least 5 pictures
-A presentation that is roughly 20 slides/frames
-Information that encompasses each of the four different subject areas
Poster & Speech
You will be preparing a poster that has pictures and words related to what you've learned in the
geocache unit.
Name______________________________________ Project Due Date: September 30
Requirements:
Poster
-color pictures (2)
-title (larger than 5 cm)
-no pencil
-information related to each of the 4 subject areas and the field trip
-proper spelling, grammar, mechanics
Speech
-Must be one-two minutes
-Must have information related to the poster and subject areas,
-May not be read verbatim (word for word) from the poster
-At least one hand gesture required
Newspaper Article
Your job is to write a newspaper article that explains everything that you've learned about
geocaching. Remember when we learned about the writing process? paraphrasing? metric units?
latitude and longitude? new geocache vocabulary? These are all areas that can be discussed and
added to your project. Requirements:
-at least one paragraph per subject area (4) and one paragraph summarizing the field trip
-proper spelling, grammar, mechanics
Name______________________________________ Project Due Date: September 30
-a catchy headline
-newspaper "style" required... column type writing
Name______________________________________ Project Due Date: September 30
Project Brainstorm
Reading Topics
*paraphrasing_____________________________________________________
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How did I use paraphrasing when learning about geocaching?
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*annotation _____________________________________________________
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How did I use annotation when learning about geocaching?
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*nonfiction _____________________________________________________
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How did I use nonfiction articles when learning about geocaching?
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Math & Science Topics
*The Metric System_________________________________________________
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How did I use the metric system when learning about geocaching?
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*length __________________________________________________________
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How is length related to geocaching and map making?
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*conversions _____________________________________________________
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Why are conversions necessary?
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Name______________________________________ Project Due Date: September 30
Language Arts Topics
*The Writing Process_______________________________________________
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How did I use the writing process when learning about geocaching?
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*expository writing _________________________________________________
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What did I learn about expository writing as it relates to geocaching?
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*types of writing____________________________________________________
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What are the four types of writing that we learned about?
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Name______________________________________ Project Due Date: September 30
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Social Studies Topics
*latitude and longitude ______________________________________________
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How are latitude and longitude important to geocaching?
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*GPS ___________________________________________________________
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Why is a GPS important to geocaching?
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*map scale
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Why are map skills important for geocaching?
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Name______________________________________ Project Due Date: September 30
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