Go hide a treasure and make a map to it, with compass directions, and spring it on the kids on Talk Like a Pirate Day. For the older kids a map with multiple goals will keep them busy.

Scientists already have determined that the compass is based on the sun or the magnetic field, but where the map comes from remains a mystery -- one that the team will be exploring in coming years.

Video summary Mr Measure finds a map he made as a boy. The map gives directions using compass points and distances in metres to find the hidden time capsule he buried in the woods 30 years ago.

Allentown school teacher John Annoni has spent another summer pointing kids in the right direction. As founder, director, chief guide, role model and van-driver of Camp Compass, he’s been ...