A travel bug is a trackable that has a tag with a code on it that you can enter into Geocaching.com to find out where people are moving it - from cache to cache.
Many travel bugs travel all over the world.
I thought that it would be a fantastic tool to use in the classroom (provided no one steals it) to watch where the class travel bug travels. It could be great to mark its travels on a map and also use it as a writing prompt.
This is a travel bug that I picked up and have now dropped off in another cache. As you can see you can make the travel bug a little character and it can go on an adventure.
Also with each travel bug it can have a goal of what it wants to achieve and when people find it they can post something that you ask for - whether that be photos or stories etc.
(I have blurred the trackable number on this travel bug as when you publish a photo of a bug you have found then you are not meant to include the number. There is geocaching ettiquette!)
Has anyone done anything like this before?
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