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When geocaching on a road trip, or even around in your own neighborhood, you can use the activity to learn about the geography, history, culture, and plants and animals of an area.
Caches are sometimes placed near historical markers, and you can take the opportunity to read up on events of the past while you're looking.
There are also nature caches that ask finders to identify trees, leaves, or rocks in an area, or answer questions about a particular landform, like a mountain.
And sometimes, locating caches requires you to venture down trails, some of which have markers that tell you about the local flora and fauna.
Smartphones have made it very easy to geocache, (get the free app). Here are some other free apps that can be used in tandem with geocaching, or by themselves to help make geography more interesting:
- Google Earth: While you're out geocaching, use the new Knowledge Cards feature of Google Earth to learn about the history, culture, natural wonders, and wildlife in your area.
- Waymarking: This free site helps you pull up all kinds of unique and interesting places in your surrounding area. Put in an address, or search by one of hundreds of categories that range from the ordinary to the bizarre, and everything in between. Some of the entries we pulled up around Santa Fe included wagon roads and trails, labyrinths, urban legends and superstitions, and weird natural formations. There was even a category showing locations for and information on penny smashers, (one of my daughter's interests).
Additional Geography Resoures:
Cultures and Geography, by traykay
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Whether you're building your own curriculum as you go, or just need some extra material to supplement what you're already using, these sites can help. Free worksheets for multiple subject areas, mostly for elementary and middle grades:
Multi-Subject:
Math:
- Math Game Time: Listed by grade (Pre-K through grade 7) and by topic.
- MathMaster: Generate your own worksheets, mostly for basic math; several Algebra and Geometry choices
- Math Charts: This site has visual aids for teaching math topics, such as fractions, percentages, measurements, skip-counting, Roman numerals, and more. Easy to print, one-page charts.
Reading and Language Arts:
- K12 Reader: Worksheets for phonics, reading comprehension, grammar and handwriting; also has 36-week spelling programs for grades 1 – 5, with spelling lists and dictation sentences.
- Free Phonics Worksheets: Consonant and vowel sounds; blends
- Graphic Organizers: Lots of printable ones, and online, interactive tools
For more downloads, visit this site's Worksheets page.
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(Photo by Nadi Whatisdelirium on Unsplash)
Here are 10 Pairs of Commonly Confused Animals plus additional free resources -- including ebooks, games, and activities -- for studying the diversity of life, animal and plant classification, and cells.
The following 71-page reader includes information on cells, classifying life, plants, classifying animals, and animal systems:
Animal Classification Cards:
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