"Around the world in 34 hours". Virtual geocaching as a means of forming students' meta-subject competencies

The article discusses the use of virtual geocaching technology in extracurricular activities in informatics. Virtual geocaching is an educational technology that is a game in which students travel around the virtual world, learn interesting facts about cities and countries, complete applied tasks and receive geographic coordinates of new "treasures" for the correct solution. unusual for pedagogical practice, the virtual geocaching technology helps to activate the educational and cognitive activities of students who actively respond to the use of new digital tools in learning. the article presents the author's course on extracurricular activities "Around the world in 34 hours" aimed at developing meta-subject competencies of 9th grade students. the presented methodological recommendations, author's approaches to organizing the game, constructing geolocations, as well as the proposed tasks can be used by teachers of different subjects when planning and organizing extracurricular activities.