AY Honors/Geocaching/Requirements

Geocaching

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1. Define Geocaching.

2. What is a GPS receiver?

3. Demonstrate 2 ways of finding the location of a Geocache in your area on a Geocache website or App.

4. Demonstrate entering the latitude and longitude coordinates into the GPS to find a Geocache in your area.

5. Define the following terms:

6. What items may be left in a geocache? Which items may not? What is usually in a cache?

7. Know and practice good Travel Bug Etiquette

8. What is meant by Cache In, Trash Out (CITO)?

9. Find 3 Geocaches in your area, at least one of which must be a regular (traditional) cache.

10. Discuss Matthew 6:19-21 and Jeremiah 29:13 and compare them to geocaching.

11. Discuss safety concerns you should consider when geocaching.