Educaching

Educaching takes the concept of geocaching into the classroom. Teachers or students hide caches related to their curriculum while students search for them – on a school playground, across the school campus, at a local nature park, while on a field trip,– locations for educaches are limitless.

Benefits to Students:
 * Take ownership for their learning.
 * Use real world data to encourage high order thinking skills.
 * Collaborate and cooperate when working with a team
 * Increase their understanding of mapping systems, as well as the principles of direction, distance, and location.
 * Construct their own knowledge and share it with others.
 * Make decisions.

Benefits to Teachers:
 * Create student-centered environments.
 * Present authentic, real-world tasks.
 * Instill in students curiosity about geography, science, mathematics, and the world in which they live.
 * Engage the multiple intelligences.
 * Embed learning in a collaborative, social environment.
 * Integrate the curriculum.