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Within the next couple of weeks, my 6th grade students and I will be releasing the WMS ’04 series of travel bugs. Thanks to those who helped move the ’03 series last year. Since I have two social studies classes this year, we will be releasing about 50 travel bugs. Look for these travel bugs to appear in caches across southeast Wisconsin and the return of our Travel Bug School Field Trip cache to be released soon.
These TB’s are created by the students and are part of a class project. Please help them out by moving their TB’s towards their goals and attaching photos to your logs. Please try not to hang on to the travel bugs for too long. The whole purpose of the project is for the students to gain further knowledge about United States geography.
On Friday, Oct. 8th, we will release the first travel bug in the series, Washington State or Bust!, in a cache near our school. This travel bug is a special one, as it’s involved in a travel bug race with another 6th grade class from Washington state.
Washington State or Bust! (Our TB) http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=62867
Field Trip to Cheeseland (Wash. 6th grade class TB) http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=81261
Sounds like a fun way to get the kids to learn! And not a bad way to get some more TB’s out there! I’ll be watching for them.
~LinusLinus,
TamCo & I tried, really, we did.
Being a local geocacher near to the potential cache this travel bug was being released in, Linus contacted me to be her operative to pick it up. She called me when the Washington bug was dropped and out the door I went.
We arrived BEFORE the class. I heard WhitnallGPS’s voice coming so we quickly hid in the woods. His students saw us and pointed us out as much as we tried to say not to tell we were geocachers here to grab the bug.
All in all, we had a good laugh, and we got the bug! Our team effort will get it moving on it’s way.
Yes, I was not expecting to find Auntienae and TamCo hiding in the woods while taking my students on a geocaching lesson today. How did they know we were going to be there? Several kids called out that there were people in the woods and one of my students told me there were two ladies laying next to each other in the woods. After discovering it was Auntienae and TamCo, I had to explain to the kids and bailed those two out. I also had to explain that this is not how a normal geocaching find ends up to be, since it was the kids’ first experience. I ended up introducing the two ladies to the kids.
Just to clarify, it was the TB in Washington state that was released, so that’s why they came out to see if they could grab our bug even though I didn’t drop it on the cache page yet. The bug didn’t fit in the cache anyhow, so I asked them to take it with them since they were there.
My students also found a TV/VCR set stashed in the woods too, so we carried that back to school. Talk about CITO! I would have to say that next to the thong guy I came across in Green Bay, this was the second most interesting experience I had while geocaching.
At least our school travel bug is now on its way out west. We’ll be keeping an eye on it. Watch for our other TB’s to be released within the next week or two.
[This message has been edited by whitnallgps (edited 10-08-2004).]
A short field trip for the Whitnall GPS class- $100.00
The look on Auntienae’s face when she was caught hiding in the woods-
PRICELESS!!
Linus4Cache, help me out here, you were a partner! Linus wanted to pick up the bug since we have a friend heading out to Colorado, road trip, late next week.
I just suspected it might be this cache. TamCo needed this SOM so came to join me. I heard WhitnallGPS’s voice coming towards us, not wanting to be discovered, we quickly had just enough time, on that straight trail back there, to hide in a lower area, on our knees, behind some bushes. However, with a group of middle schoolers, learning how to use their GPS, they found us about 150 ft from the cache. Funny, some of them thought WE WERE it! A few students did notice our GPS units were different and asked us about our finds, etc.
These travel bugs sound a bit like what I have been doing. Originally from Wi I moved to seattle two years ago and just a couple weeks ago moved back. I made the trip from seattle to Wi with my dad and a big trailer behind our truck. The trip is really interesting, lots of change in land. From wisconsin woods to flat and rocky to mountains and finally into Washingtons east side fields. I will be keeping an eye on your travel bugs, see if they see anything that I saw on my way over. Good luck.
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Originally posted by whitnallgps:
I would have to say that next to the thong guy I came across in Green Bay, this was the second most interesting experience I had while geocaching.
Oh please, do tell. If for no other reason than for me to not visit this cache with my children!
later,
Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…quote:
Originally posted by Auntienae:
Linus4Cache, help me out here, you were a partner! Linus wanted to pick up the bug since we have a friend heading out to Colorado, road trip, late next week.Excuse me lady, but please keep me out of the middle of your games! I don’t think you should involve innocent…oh heck, I can’t even finish that statement with a straight face so…uhhmmmm, yes, I admit it! I was the mastermind behind this one! I was simply trying to help out the Jr. Cheesers! I would have gone on the search myself but I had to work and didn’t have time to go. But hey, watch this bug go!
Our WMS ’04 series of travel bugs are now released. Our school cache was approved tonight, Travel Bug School Field Trip.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=e164588b-9b08-4bc8-9660-c737a5408056Please help move our TB’s along if you pick them up along the way. Don’t forget to attach photos to the travel bug page. My students will appreciate you. Thanks for your assistance.
Dropped off the 2nd batch of school travel bugs this morning in the cache. Please continue to help the WMS travel bugs move along.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=e164588b-9b08-4bc8-9660-c737a5408056
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