First Hide

So yesterday my class hid its first geocache. We took a walking field trip to the park near our school and chose a hiding place. We used a handheld GPSr to find the coordinates and then went back to the classroom to fill out the listing page. Before we posted I told the students we should check the coordinates we got on google maps to see if they looked right. So I typed them into google maps and when the map came up on our smartboard, the students said, "That's not right!" I told them our coordinates must be off and I would have to go recheck them later. Then the student who held the GPSr said, "Wait, it should be 011 at the end." We had written down 11 instead of 011 and it put us about a block or more off. Excellent lesson in how important accuracy is.