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SPECIAL INVITATION
The workshop will cover the following topics:
1) Treasure hunts from Low Tech to High Tech: An introduction to Mazes, Puzzle Trails, Orienteering, Letterboxing ,Waymarking and Geocaching
2) What on Earth? An introduction to Earth Caching
3) There’s Gold in them thar Hills! (…or, maybe just agates and fossils…): an Introduction to Minnesota’s Geological Treasures, and how to find them
4) GPS for Newbies
5) How to set up treasure hunts, especially Earth Caches, in your own neck of the woods
6) Pirate games and adventures in the classroom
7) Pirate Dinner (Appropriate Pirate Attire is required!!!!)
9) And last but not least, meet Grace O’Malley, 16 th century Pirate Queen of the North Atlantic!
(For a sneak peak, click here: http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=132265)
Participants who attend this workshop will, of course, become more knowledgeable about geographic aspects of piracy and treasure hunts! But we especially hope to prepare you to use and create GeoCaches in general, and Earth Caches in particular, on your own. As a follow-up to this workshop, we hope you will create an Earth Cache unique to your part of Minnesota, and submit it to our Minnesota Earth Cache webpage at the MAGE website. Anyone who successfully submits a useful educational contribution to our Earth Cache page will be awarded 8 units of Continuing Education credits for attending the workshop and completing this follow-up activity, and anyone whose submission is accepted for inclusion on the National Earthcaching website will have their registration waived for the next MAGE adventure they attend this year!
This workshop is hosted by the Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education, and co-sponsored by the Geological Society of America.
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October 13, 2007
DATE
9:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
TIME
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chanhassen, MN
http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/visitor/index.htm
RAIN or SHINE!
(or even snow. . .)
LOCATION
The Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education
HOST
The Geological Society of America
CO-SPONSOR
QUESTIONS? Email: jrith@paulbunyan.net
Have you dreamed of pirate adventures, but never had the chance to be a buccaneer? Have you yearned to journey in search of treasure, but not known where to start? Here’s your chance to join the crew of the good ship , the MSS Pirate MAGER! Join us on Saturday, Oct. 13, for a day-long adventure to hone your treasure-hunting skills and dabble in piracy!
This workshop will be held at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum from 10 am to 7pm, with registration beginning at 9:30 am in the Snyder Auditorium of the Visitor Center. (You are, however, welcome to come to the Arboretum as early as 7:30 am if you want to wander around and explore the gardens and trails on your own before the workshop)
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will involve a lot of outdoor activity and will be held rain or shine ( ….or, even, shiver me timbers, in the snow if it comes early…) so please wear appropriate outdoor shoes and clothes and jackets , and bring warm dry spares to change into in case of inclement weather!
Participants who survive the day without walking the plank, will be rewarded with various and sundry treasures and pirate loot to take home. Also, those who are not already so inducted will be initiated into the Loyal Orders of the MAGERs, and be allowed thereafter to fraternize with this elite crew of swashbuckling adventurers.
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