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Students define data, recover data from the Internet, and use information they obtain to solve problems. In this investigative instructional activity students answer questions on a worksheet and demonstrate the use of a maneuvering board in solving problems involving ocean currents and navigation.
Students explore google earth and its functions. In this navigation lesson students create their own tour of google earth using all the navigation tools.
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.
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.
Middle schoolers study the basic concepts of the Global Positioning System and how it increases the accuracy of navigation. They examine trilateration and how the speed of light is used to calculate distances.
Students identify navigational tools. They describe and label seven of the nautical advances that enabled European explorers to travel to Africa and America thereby initiating a new era of exploration.
Using their knowledge of number, measurement, and geometry, learners design a "virtual path" that enables a ladybug to hide under a leaf. Pupils also develop navigational skills by testing to see if their path's accuracy and revising their solutions. This is an interesting lesson, which has excellent websites, worksheets, and in-class activities embedded in it.
Students examine the Subway Navigator website to determine the best route between two subway stations, simulating the roles of tourist and Tourist Office employee. They give the directions to partners, and write the directions down.
Help your class learn sentence writing with this worksheet about traveling. In this sentence writing worksheet, learners build question and answer sentences using the available words. Writers eventually compose their own question and answer sentences after using the navigator sheets. While this resource looks confusing at first, the art and nature of the activities will lead to engagement.
Students explore the concept of navigation in these two activities.