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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity Surveyor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Surveyors describe land parcels with distance and angle measurements, often given as compass headings. Once the boundaries of the land parcel are described, the surveyor can calculate the area of the land. This activity uses Cabri Jr....
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Map and Compass Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Science Scope article presents an activity on topography and land masses that helps learners learn about scientific inquiry. Students also practice making and interpreting scale drawings and learning about computation, estimation and new...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Topo Triangulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will learn how to read a topographical map and how to triangulate with just a map. True triangulation requires both a map and compass, but to simplify the activity and make it possible indoors, the compass...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Classroom Triangles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will use bearing measurements to triangulate and determine objects' locations. Working in teams of two or three, students must put on their investigative hats as they take bearing measurements to specified...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Asu Compass for Courage: Module 4: Digital Activity Stand Up Game (Grades 3 5)

For Students 3rd - 5th
This game offers students Grades 3-5 a chance to read and discuss different situations and consider how they would handle each using the practice using S.A.F.E. to be assertive. Play online within PBS LearningMedia or select the download...
Unit Plan
Geographypods

Geographypods: Map Skills

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A collection of highly engaging learning modules on various topics within mapping skills. Covers map symbols, how to use four- and six-figure grid references, cardinal directions, distance, contour mapping, and drawing cross-sections....
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Geometric Constructions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn all about the basic geometric constructions in this test prep lesson. You will explore line segments and points, and understand key terms like the terms parallel and perpendicular. Construction activities and interactive online...
Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: Magnetized

For Students 2nd - 7th
A unit all about magnets! Explore magnetic forces, types of magnets, and more through these informative activities.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Northward Ho!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will create their own simple compass, be able to explain how a compass works, understand that the Earth's magnetic field has both horizontal and vertical components, and learn more about cardinal directions.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Find Your Own Direction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students create their own simple compass using thread, needle and water in a bowl - and learn how it works.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Where Is Your Teacher?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will learn how to take bearing with a compass. They will also learn how to describe a bearing and find an object in their classroom using a bearing.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Magnets and Electricity: Creating Magnetism With Electricity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will work in small groups to design at least one complete circuit using multiple materials. They will record their observations of how they created an electrical circuit using diagrams and notes in their journals. Using a...
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Other

Gobierno De Navarra: Con Regla Y Compas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to construct figures in these interactive activities with only a ruler and a compass.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Drawing Field Lines

For Students 3rd - 5th
A well illustrated activity where students investigate and draw the magnetic field lines created with a bar magnet and a compass.
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Position and Direction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A large collection of teacher resources dealing with position and direction (coordinates and compass directions). Includes worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, games, presentations, and smartboard files.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Circles of Magnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
Create a magnetic field that is stronger than Earth so a compass needle will orient itself to the new field in this activity.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Topo Map Mania!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Maps are designed to allow people to travel to a new location without a guide to show the way. They tell us information about areas to which we may or may not have ever been. There are many types of maps available for both recreational...
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BBC

Bbc: Ks3 Bitesize: Constructions and Locus

For Students 9th - 10th
This BBC Bitesize focuses on constructions and locus. To understand this activity, you must already know how to define perpendicular, bisect, and locus.
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Mariners' Museum and Park

Mariners' Museum: Resources: Age of Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll to the bottom of this page to access activity resources and lesson plans that encourage students to explore an understand the practicalities and difficulties involved in sailing to new places during the Age of Exploration.
Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Find Your Bearing: Mapping

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this exercise, students use compasses to make a map of the school's campus.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Drawing Magnetic Fields

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use a compass and a permanent magnet to trace the magnetic field lines produced by the magnet. By positioning the compass in enough spots around the magnet, the overall magnet field will be evident from the collection of arrows...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Circuits and Magnetic Fields

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the same method as in the activity from lesson 2 to explore the magnetism due to electric current instead of a permanent magnet. Students use a compass and circuit to trace the magnetic field lines induced...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Visualizing Magnetic Field Lines

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this activity, students take the age old concept of etch-a-sketch a step further. Using iron filings, students begin visualizing magnetic field lines. To do so, students use a compass to read the direction of the magnet's magnetic...
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Other

Family Education Network: Heavy Metal

For Students 3rd - 5th
An engaging site that provides interesting facts about magnets. Solve a problem and discover how to create a compass.