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Lights, Shoals & Soundings
Learners explore nautical charts and their symbols, with a bit of fun thrown in.
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Chart Making for Navigators
Students discuss the importance and function of nautical maps for sailors. They, in groups, take soundings of a simulated bay in a shoebox and develop a nautical chart that enable them to navigate the shoebox safely.
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Navigation Across the Seas
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...
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By Land, Sea or Air
Learners 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...
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Nautical Navigation
Learners 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 instructional activity.
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Plot Your Course
Students determine distance and direction on a nautical chart. In this nautical instructional activity, students identify obstacles and characteristics of common aid to navigation on a nautical chart.
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Geography of the Harbor
Learners study estuaries and their boundaries. In this investigative lesson students locate an estuary on a map and use nautical and topographical maps.
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Plotting Wind Speed and Altitude
Students construct, read and interpret tables, charts and graphs. They draw inferences and develop convincing arguments that are based on data analysis. They create a graph displaying altitude versus wind speed.
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Mapping The Ocean Floor
Young scholars explore and analyze the bottom structure of underwater habitats. They describe and explain what can't see through the collection and correlation of accurate data. Learners assess that technology is utilized as a tool for...
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The Robot Archaeologist
Students discover what is needed to program an underwater robot to complete a course of action. In this robot archaeologist lesson plan students design an archaeological strategy of an underwater vehicle.
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Where's My Bot?
Students estimate geographic position based on speed and air travel. In GPS lesson students use GPS to estimate the set and drift of currents.
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Images of Katrina
High schoolers use maps and online data to find specific geographic areas. In hurricane Katrina lesson students use aerial photographic imagery to see some impacts of hurricane Katrina.
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The Ridge Exploring Robot
Students study about an autonomous underwater vehicle and explain the strategies that it uses to locate and map hydrothermal vents. In this marine navigation lesson students design a program for an AUV survey.
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Mapping the Ocean Floor
Young scholars study the bottom structure of underwater habitats and how they can be mapped.
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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Students research and chart the shortest course to circumnavigate the globe.