Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Age of Exploration: Tools of Navigation
Sailors improved on many of the tools used in navigation to help them in their long journeys across an ocean. On this site from the Mariners' Museum, find many of these tools, perhaps in use already in the 15th century, but made even...
Pamela Seed
Rice: Latitude: The Art and Science of 15th Century Navigation
This is a great site to read about how navigation began in Europe and what tools were used. Make sure to read the segments on coastal navigation, maps, and ocean currents.
EL Education
El Education: Tools for Sailors Ahoy, Mate!
In this lesson students learn about sailing and contribute writing, illustrations, and photographs to a class book containing information about navigation equipment, the Beaufort Scale, knots, and the signal system of flags used by...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator Usa Money in Circulation
Students will determine the approximate number of $20 bills in circulation as of December 31, 2001, using percent and total number of bills from the USA TODAY Snapshot "USA money in circulation." Students will write their answers in...
University of Hawai'i
History of an Astrolabe
This site offers a definition and history of the astrolabe. There are links for additional information and acitivities.
Other
Air Pano: Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt
A virtual tour in 3D of the Great Pyramids of Giza. There are easy to understand navigational tools, and different photographs to start an exploration from.
Government of Canada
Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces
This resource provides information about the activities of the department and the Canadian armed services. Use the site map, navigation tools, or search to get to your particular topic of interest, whether it be defense policy, resources...
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Gov't.: Wisconsin Historical Society
Explore the state of Wisconsin using the resources of the Wisconsin Historical Society! This highly interactive site offers useful information from the state's past to what is happening right now. Maps, event calendars, this date in...
Other
Smithsonian Institution: Musica Del Pueblo
Musica del Pueblo is a full-featured resource that explores the traditions of Latino music. Using a colorful mural titled "Song of Unity" as a navigation tool, visitors can watch videos of performances, listen to different varieties of...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Parent Blog
A resource filled with advice about all kinds of media for parents of children from preschoolers to teens. You can navigate the site by age, entertainment type, and topic.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Parent Blog
A resource filled with advice about all kinds of media for parents of children from preschoolers to teens. You can navigate the site by age, entertainment type, and topic.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Rate a Website
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart five key website evaluation components are reviewed: author, date, navigation, visuals, and information.
PBS
Pbs: Hernan Cortes and the Fall of the Aztec Empire
Learn about the fall of the Aztec Empire. You can use the navigation tool at the left to click into more information on the Aztecs and the Spanish conquest of Cortes. Uses popups.
Institute and Museum of the History of Science
Museo Galileo: Multimedia: Video: Astronomical Use of the Plane Astrolabe
Invented in ancient Egypt, the plane astrolabe is a tool used by astronomers and navigators to determine time and identifying positions of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets. Read text or view the video to understand the details of its...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Meetup
In this tutorial, learn more about navigating this popular in-person networking site, which finds people with similar interests.
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.
Microsoft
Microsoft: Map Reading in the 21st Century
Learners learn how to make informed use of new digital mapping information and tools. Learners create hands-on learning experiences for understanding the relevance of maps. The lesson plan consists of student activities, resources,...
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year Four Math (Page 3)
Build your computation skills using this interactive worksheet that focuses on all four operations including three-digit addition and subtraction and basic multiplication and division facts. This is an easy to navigate tool and learners...
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year Four Math (Page 4)
This interactive worksheet that focuses on all four operations including three-digit addition and subtraction and basic multiplication and division facts. This easy to navigate tool gives learners immediate feedback. Problems presented...
Other
National Pta (Parent Teacher Association)
The online home of the National PTA is a full-featured site with easy-to-use navigational tools for finding out how to join the organization and about the organization's positions on various issues. Includes resources for parents, news,...
Other
The Telson Spur: The Solar System
This is a list of links to online resources related to the study of the planets. It has a literary theme associated with the Lewis Carrol poem "The Hunting of the Snark" with many quotes from literature and science. Navigation tools...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Parallel and Skew Lines
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore the concept of parallel and skew lines by navigating through the interactive learning module and then answering questions that go along with the module. Students can also learn more...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Regular and Irregular Polygons
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore the concept of regular and irregular polygons by navigating through the interactive learning module and then answering questions that go along with the module. Students can also learn...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry Software for Constructions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore the concept of using geometry software to construct geometric shapes by navigating through the interactive learning module and then answering questions that go along with the module....