Just finished the design of the treasure map that I’ll be using to teach kids how to use a compass on Earth Day at the Brenton Arboretum. I spent yesterday morning out at the Arboretum getting the bearings and marking which trees, stumps and patches of thick brush I want to hide the treasure markers in. Once I had the coordinates and directional location from magnetic North, I was able to mark them on the map using basic Orienteering symbols and Topography.

The full size image is about 6 inches x 8 inches, of which the kids will get to take home as a poster along with a red piratey carabiner “adventurer’s clip”. Here’s a smaller version.  I created this in Gimp and I learned a lot of new techniques that I’ll be writing about over the next few days.