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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
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students hypothesize why individual leatherbacks were able to find their way from Costa Rica to the Galápagos Islands without any obvious navigational aids. They draw pictuers of people and leatherbacks navigating the ocean and explain their dr Full Review »
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- 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 »
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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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- 3rd - 8th
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Students use a compass and their hands to find positions of stars and planets in the night sky or of the sun during the day. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 7th
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Students examine the use a compass rose on a map, in the classroom, and in everyday life. They locate their cardinal directions and intermediate directions on maps. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students describe the major features of maps and compasses. They read a topographical map. They take a bearing using a compass. They practice using scales on a map. 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 - 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 »
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- 6th - 7th
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Students view several styles of the compass rose from captured images from the Internet. They view photographs of images seen from the inside of many kaleidoscopes. They then fold paper to create kaleidoscope shaped designs based on those of the compass rose. Full Review »
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