"Undersea" Adventure!

This week was one of our last environmental classes. It was a fun day. We went on an "undersea" treasure hunt adventure. They split the class up into groups and each group was given a GPS with previously input coordinates. These coordinates led to an undersea "dive" location of a treasure. The kids had to follow the GPS instructions to their "dive site" where they were to log their finds along with measurments on how far the items were from the "shipwreck" and anything else they could find out about the site. And, since they were "underwater", the kids had to be silent. This was probably the most difficult task of the whole assignment!! lol

Here's Levi in his "dive" outfit. Too cute!

And, here's Indy in his dive outfit along with the giant tape measure, which it was his job to carry.

Indy, Levi, and teammate Jacob (who had the GPS), go in search of their "dive site". Funny enough, our local PBS station was doing a special on the environmental classes we were taking and the location that was offering them. Here, the guy films our team on it's dive adventure. Pretty cool, huh?? BTW, notice Levi's outfit is gone? After about 2 minutes, he decided he was absolutely NOT wearing it any longer. Not sure why, but it was off in about 30 seconds! Oh well, easy come, easy go.

Getting closer to the treasure site.

Mr. Elias helps our team log their finds.

One of our items was a piece of metal, which we logged and measured the distance from the "shipwreck" (which was an upside down canoe).

Overall, it was a lot of fun and the kids did actually learn about treasure finding in the ocean. Earlier we had talked about pirates and sunken treasure and how we can use them to find out about life in the past. Pretty interesting...and fun...stuff! :-) We'll sure miss this class!