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Get Your Bearings
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Get Your Bearings
This is a set of activities from the Four Winds Nature Institute that looks at how animals find their way and use their senses to navigate, and gives us some ways to practice thinking about and using our own wayfinding skills and senses. Feel free to respond with:
1. Any takeaways or experiences from these activities
2. Examples you find of how animals navigate
3. Landmarks that are important to you in finding your way to different places or traveling!
https://nearbynature.fwni.org/2018/09/23/get-your-bearings-activities/
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Get Your Bearings – Activities
Focus: Many aspects of the physical world provide important cues for us and other animals as we move from place to place. We’ll see how animals use the position of the sun, features of the landscap…
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Thank you Cara. This is a very good article and the activities seem like they would be fun. I know that I use land marks more than I use addresses.
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We read through the article and graded the activity’s. We think it would be great for the campers. Here is the document.
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Thanks for these notes on the activities!
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On a sunny day we would like to test them. Some of them being Compass Quest (Geocaching), Nickel Navigation and Minds Eye. We did a little Minds Eye practice and are waiting for said sunny day so we can leave the living room.
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This reply was modified 3 months ago by john.
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I hope you get a sunny day soon! The nickel activity is a really fun one, I’d love to hear what you think about it once you get a chance to try it.
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This reply was modified 3 months ago by
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We’ve completed these activities: Mind’s Eye Map, Cardinal Directions, Simon Says, Nickel Navigation and Journal Activity.
Mind’s Eye Map was really fun. it is good for all ages and good for rainy days.
Cardinal Directions is good for all ages but might feel boring for teens that have done it already. We did this activity outside on a sunny day but you can also do this inside on a rainy day.
Simon Says was very fun. It can be played inside or outside.
We had trouble with Nickel Navigation. It took a couple of tries to get to our original marker. Overall it was a good game.
The kids were most excited about the Journal Activity. Joseph mapped our friends and family around the country. Caleb mapped the house.
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Wow, very exciting to hear that you were able to do all those activities! The feedback on how they went is great, and I’m glad that the Mind’s eye Map and Journal activity were especially fun. I like those two the most too 🙂 I would love to see any maps that you’ve drawn, if you would like to share them.
For the nickel navigation, I’m curious— did you have a real compass that you could use for the activity? I know that iPhones sometimes have a compass app, but I’ve never tried this activity with an iPhone so I don’t know if it would work well.
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This reply was modified 4 weeks, 1 day ago by Cara.
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