Thursday, November 13, 2008

geocaching

Geocaching is basically a treasure-hunting outdoor adventure, where you use a GPS, coordinates and hints to find a "geocache" which is usually a small box, or container. Inside of the geocache is usually a log book, and little treasures that people have left behind when they found it. Geocaching is a world-wide "sport, and geocaches are found all around the world.

I learned a lot during this unit, including how to enter new coordinates in a GPS, more about using a GPS to find a destination, and a lot about how to go geocaching.

My team found two Geocaches, the first was hidden in a tree in a small box, with a log book and there was a baseball card inside.
The second one was under brush at the roots of a tree. This one was in a box similar to the firstm and had a cinderella ring inside of it.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

GPSing rocks my socks!

At the beginning of this quarter, we went to the Keawakapu Tide Pools, and the Fish Pond to take pictures, and record their GPS coordinates.

Keawakapu-
20 46.306N
156 27.044W

Kihei Fish Pond-
20 45.832N
156 27.551W

Monday, October 13, 2008

Plankton!!!!!

Plankton Identification

This year, we identified plankton and made a guide book of all the plankton that we found using cool new microscopes. This is a picture of one of the planktons we found using the Mic-D.