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- 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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- 6th - 8th
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Students, through teacher lecture and class discussion, explore historical methods of navigation: dead reckoning and celestial navigation. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discover the use of math in navigation and engineering. They examine how navigational satellites are used and practice solving equations. They identify how engineers use this information as well. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students work together to discover the importance of charts while navigating. They complete a worksheet and practice reading maps. They create their own nautical chart to complete the lesson. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students observe how math is important in navigation and engineering. They study how surveyors use math and science to calcute, count, measure, label, and indicate distances on a map. They estimate specific distances. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine historical methods of navigation. They discuss the techniques of "Dead Reckoning," "Heaving the Log," and "Chip Log," pretend to sail from Europe to North America using vectors and determine the location of their landfall, and take a quiz. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate the concept of star mapping and how it is used in space navigation. They conduct various activities to see the effect of mapping. Also the teacher uses models and demonstrations in order to communicate the main objectives of the lesson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students examine nautical navigation and discover the differences between nautical charts and other types of maps or charts. Students practice setting a course, taking a bearing, and dead reckoning. This gives students an example of how vectors and other physics related material is used in the "real world". Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the concept of stellar navigation. Inside a portable digital planetarium they identify various stars that were used as a navigational tool. They go through several activities in which they attempt to identify their location on earth (in latitude and longitude measurements) using the night sky. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students are introduced to Navigation 101. They are told that Navigation 101 is a life skills and planning curriculum for students in grades 6 through 12. Students are told that it helps them make clear, careful, and creative plans for life beyond high school and enhances achievement. Full Review »