Jan. 31, 2009 - Navigation tools of the Explorers

We had our History group on Friday and decided to focus on the explorer’s around the time of Columbus and the navigational tools they might have used.  I found a great site that has pictures, videos, worksheets and more!  Be sure to check it out. It goes great with MOH III and all the lessons on the explorers.   So here’s our pictures of the tools we made.  Can you guess what they are?     We had the kids split up into three groups and follow the directions (from the above mentioned site) to make their “tool”.  Then each of these has a short video and a page of information they read to be able to explain to the rest of the group how their instrument was used.   Okay, so did you guess right?  It’s a compass (top left), quadrant (top right), and an astrolabe (bottom.)  I’ll let you check the video’s out for yourself to explain how they worked!

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Posted by kristenph

How neat! I will bookmark that for when we get there in history. I gave you an award on my blog. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/kristenph/652392/ (No pressure to pass it on!)

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