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Treasure Hunts Have Gone High-tech
Grab the family and a GPS device and search for fun.
Have I got a great activity for you and your family! Geocaching. We learned about it this summer when my son took a class at the Morton Arboretum. The class taught the kids about how to read a compass, and how to locate places with coordinates and a global positioning system (GPS). During the class, the youngsters walked around the arboretum with a handheld GPS device. It looks a lot like a walkie-talkie. You put in coordinates for a place where an item is located and then you follow the GPS to the location. The kids looked for different items throughout the arboretum and had a great time. On the last day of the program, the staff told the kids where to get their own GPS and how to become part of the geocaching community. They explained …
