Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity Surveyor
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....
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Map and Compass Lab
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Topo Triangulation
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Classroom Triangles
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Asu Compass for Courage: Module 4: Digital Activity Stand Up Game (Grades 3 5)
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...
Geographypods
Geographypods: Map Skills
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....
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Geometric Constructions
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...
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Magnetized
A unit all about magnets! Explore magnetic forces, types of magnets, and more through these informative activities.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Northward Ho!
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Find Your Own Direction
In this activity, students create their own simple compass using thread, needle and water in a bowl - and learn how it works.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Where Is Your Teacher?
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Magnets and Electricity: Creating Magnetism With Electricity
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...
Other
Gobierno De Navarra: Con Regla Y Compas
Learn how to construct figures in these interactive activities with only a ruler and a compass.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Drawing Field Lines
A well illustrated activity where students investigate and draw the magnetic field lines created with a bar magnet and a compass.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Position and Direction
A large collection of teacher resources dealing with position and direction (coordinates and compass directions). Includes worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, games, presentations, and smartboard files.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Circles of Magnetism
Create a magnetic field that is stronger than Earth so a compass needle will orient itself to the new field in this activity.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Topo Map Mania!
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...
BBC
Bbc: Ks3 Bitesize: Constructions and Locus
This BBC Bitesize focuses on constructions and locus. To understand this activity, you must already know how to define perpendicular, bisect, and locus.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Resources: Age of Exploration
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.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Find Your Bearing: Mapping
In this exercise, students use compasses to make a map of the school's campus.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Drawing Magnetic Fields
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Circuits and Magnetic Fields
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Visualizing Magnetic Field Lines
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...
Other
Family Education Network: Heavy Metal
An engaging site that provides interesting facts about magnets. Solve a problem and discover how to create a compass.