Caching+KP

First It’s Sour, Then It’s Sweet  It was dark, crisp night in October for geocaching. My friend Corey and I decided go on this adventure to search for the cache. First we had to stop by the Groc to grab some Sour Patch Kids because you always need snacks for an adventure. With little experience in geocaching, I wasn’t sure how well this adventure was going to unfold. The start of the adventure was a nice walk through campus eating Sour Patch kids and wondering where in the world this cache was going to be hidden or what exactly we were looking for. I have the geocaching app on my phone so I typed in the zip code to Buies Creek to find geocaches around the area. We followed it across campus to Saylor Park, where I was thinking how can a geocache be hidden here in an open field with volleyball courts. Once we got into Saylor Park the gps led us to the other side of the park near the road. I looked all around the light poles and stop sign before going across the street to look in the bushes. The gps continued to change the distance we were from the cache so we were very confused as if we were in the right place and where exactly the cache was hidden. The gps would fluctuate from 56 feet to 16 feet so we felt as if we were walking around in circles to keep up with the machine. My phone was on 20% battery and kept reminding me to seek a charger. I thought we had come to a dead end for the night in our geocaching. This is when the Sour Patch Kids were sour. As the saying goes, first they’re sour then their sweet. We finally got our sweet when I decided to look in the metal box that I thought was an electrical outlet. FINALLY we had found the cache! In the metal box was a small cylinder with a rolled up scroll of names that had found it prior to us. I did not know this many people went geocaching or even knew about it. I had a lot of fun while searching for the cache I plan to go again soon and introduce it to more of my friends to get them involved.



I have provided a geocaching lesson plan for third grade. It includes Science and English Language Art North Carolina Standards.