Minds on the move Mystery Cache

This cache is about an Erasmus+ project called Geocaching In and Out the Classroom - Minds on the Move.The project is a partnership between Escola Básica e Secundária Mestre Domingos Saraiva in Agrupamento de Escolas do Algueirão, Portugal and 6 more European schools: Professional Institute of Stato Giuseppe Ravizza, Novara, Italy; Zespol Szkol Ponadgimnazjalnych nr2 w Kielcach, Poland; Lycée Lucie Aubrac, France; IES Moraima, Granada, Spain; Geniko Lykeio Diopolitismikis Ekpaidefsis Evosmou, Thessaloniki, Greece; Vilniaus Juzefo Ignacijaus Krasevskio Gimnazija, Lithuania. Its approval by the European Union allowed these organizations to work together to improve their offer for students and share innovative practices. This project, developed in 27 months, from 1^st September 2016 to 30^th November 2018, was designed to develop skills, knowledge and attitudes of teachers and students directly or indirectly involved in the project. It aimed to:

• Allow an exchange of pedagogical practices among the teachers of the different schools;
• Promote an improvement in the quality of teaching through the practice of geocaching;
• Increase the social inclusion of students;
• Encourage the modernization and improvement of the international dimension of the grouping; increase students' motivation to participate in the teaching / learning process;
• Contribute to the institutional development of the schools involved;
• Improve foreign languages communication;
• Broaden these students’ horizons, to get them to know other cultures, customs and to exchange experiences.

The project includes international mobility of students and teachers and to involve different subjects of the curricula as well as an active involvement of students of different cycles.

The 1^st mobility took place in IES Moraima, Granada, Spain; the 2^nd one in Professional Institute of Stato Giuseppe Ravizza, Novara, Italy; the 3^rd one in Geniko Lykeio Diopolitismikis Ekpaidefsis Evosmou, Thessaloniki, Greece; the 4^th one in Agrupamento de Escolas do Algueirão, Sintra, Portugal and the last one in Zespol Szkol Ponadgimnazjalnych nr2 w Kielcach, Poland. Those mobilities allowed teachers and students to share best teaching practices in certain target topics. These events were extremely important since they turned each partner´s individual experience into a common understanding and input.

This is the Logo of the project created by the students

The Cache

The cache is not in the initial coordinates. To find the cache you need to solve the following enigma:

N 38º AB,GCA

W 009º EF,DCH

(find the final coordinates)

A= Number of countries involved in this project that are in the Time Zone GMT + 1

B= Number of countries involved in this project

C= Use the position of the countries in the logo of this project (clockwise) to solve the following expression: (Italy x Lithuania) + Greece - Spain

D= This number is the position of Greece in the logo of this project (clockwise)

E= Number of countries involved in this project that are in the Time Zone GMT + 2

F= This number is the position of France in the logo of this project (clockwise)

G= This number is the position of Portugal in the logo of this project (clockwise)

H= If its 7 am in Lisbon, what is the time in Vilnius?

Now that you have found the cache, you can visit the beautifull palace that you can see near the initial coordinates: QUINTA DA REGALEIRA