LFS Lesson Plan
Triangulation on Map
2 days
Unit EQ: How are technological Systems Different?
LEQ: Why are open loop systems inaccurate?
Activating Strategies:
Wave Runner Story/Scenario introduction.
Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary:
Lattitude, Longitude, True North, Magnetic North, Prime Meridian, Equator, Hemisphere, Time zones, Degrees, Minutes, Seconds, Compass, Triangulation. Bearing
Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:
1. demo scenario with overhead of Lake George
2. Hand out the Queensbury map challenge
3. Hand out the paralell rules and review use.
4. Complete example with same color pencil and degrees of lines and arrows.
5. Let students work and help them
6. Grade work and have them fix it.
Summarizing Strategies:
Write a definition of triangulation in your notebook.
Finding a location where the bearing to two different objects crosses.
Homework:
None.