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- 4th - 5th
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Students create a compass and investigate properties of magnetism. They explain compasses work because of magnetism. They explain that it is possible to magnetize an iron or steel object by stroking it with a magnet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students take a reading with a compass and use the compass to reach multiple checkpoints in a scavenger hunt activity. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students focus on people's innate navigational abilities. They first read about animal navigation and then compare animal to human navigational capabilities. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students discover how to use a compass and how to use that knowledge in the field while applying orienteering and mathematical skills. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students demonstrate how to take bearings using a compass. In pairs, they select objects in the classroom then write down its first initial and bearing. They exchange papers and try to disciver their partner's object. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students study navigation skills when a compass is unavailable. They are timed as they move quickly through a predetermined arrangement of numbered traffic cones . They straddle over the cone and read the bearing found on the record sheet, which coincides with the numbered cone they are standing over Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students explore how to use a compass and how to interpret topographic maps. They gain experience in using information provided to successfully navigate or find their way in the environment. Students survey the environment around them using a compass and a topographic map. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 10th
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Students study the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They map the route they took and develop some creative variations to the route (from Sacagawea's perspective? traveling from the west to the east?) They also practice using a compass. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Higher Ed
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Students identify the basic parts of a compasss, find and analyze basic compass bearings. They explain the concepts of navigation and orienteering. Students discuss the difference between magnetic north and true north. They calculate directions using a compass. Students draw a simple map of an orienteering course. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students practice using compass and calibrate their own pace, take field measurements of pre-set course with compass and pace, convert measurements into map, using angles and vectors, and make composite class map by adjusting different scales and orientations of maps. Full Review »