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Question Set: Wayfinding and Navigation
NGSS Crosscutting Concepts
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- Why do you think latitude has been historically easier to estimate than longitude?
- What were some of the historical or traditional methods of wayfinding and navigating? What are some of the modern technological methods? What do they have in common?
- What methods would you use to navigate from your home:
- to school?
- to another country?
- to an island in the Pacific ocean basin?
- How is wayfinding similar to navigating? How are they different?
- Why do you think many methods of navigation rely on celestial bodies?
- How do you think using the North Star and the sun to navigate in the northern hemisphere would be different?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of the following:
- magnetic compass
- dead reckoning
- GPS
- sextant
- nautical charts
- radar
