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- 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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- 7th
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Students examine how navigational techniques change when people travel to different places. They study navigational charts by looking real ones and drawing their own. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 9th
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Students make sets of nautical signal flags and use them to communicate in the classroom. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students learn navigational techniques change when people travel to different places. They understand differences between navigation on land, water, air and in space. They explain the concept of dead reckoning as it applies to navigation estimation. They understand beacon nomenclature, symbols and information as found on nautical charts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students observe a Powerpoint demonstration about sea turtles. In groups, they conduct simulated experiments in shrimp trawling by using candies in cups of water to represent sea animals. Using a spoon as a net, they examine the animals caught in the spoon which have assigned candy colors. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students conduct research in the area of accidents at sea. In this lesson they focus on the tragedy of the Titanic ship and how the original idea of avoiding collisions at sea could have possible helped to change history. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of navigation while research is conducted with the use of a variety of resources. The information is used to expand their perspective of the applications for navigation. The lesson includes background information for the teacher to use. Full Review »
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