Bearings In Real Life
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Understand how bearings can be used to describe relative directions and journeys.
How you'll know that you've been learning today:
Can measure bearings with a protractor, and use them with changes-of-scale to calculate distances traveled in journeys.
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Bearings Rules Reminder
1. Start from North
2. Measure Clockwise
3. Write 3 Figures
Starter:
Time Goal: 5min
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Copy the names from the features, and write down the 3 digit bearing from the center to the different objects.
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Hint: you will first need to calculate how may degrees each 'tick' on the circle is
Labeling bearings from one big circle Answers
Fuel Dump
Science Dome
Rocket Wreck
Solar Panel
Base Camp
Storage Area
Lava Lake
Alien Ruins
Rock Field
Crater
040°
070°
100°
140°
170°
220°
240°
270°
290°
340°
Outdoor Bearings Activity:
- Orient towards North, and draw a ‘North’ line
- In pairs, accurately chalk a large (1m²) compass rose of N,S,E,W,NE,SE,SW,NW. Then also draw large squares, triangles. Challenge: draw a 6-pointed star
- Work out bearings FROM any <start> TO any <finish>
- Give instructions in your pairs to navigate all the way to a destination. First by only using the compass directions. Then more complicated using exact bearings.
- Extension: use trundle wheels to follow/give instructions about directions AND distances. e.g. 5m N, 5m E, 5m S, 5m W should land back on the same spot.
- Precision Challenge: Starting from the NE corner, travelling 5m W, 2m S, 3m NE, 1M SSE, point to a dot and write your name next to it.
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Bearing “to” vs. Bearing “of”:
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"to":
from <start> to <end>
"of":
of <end> from <start>
Complete Dr. Brookman’s 1993 bearings worksheet (finish for prep):
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You started by reading and interpreting bearings.
Now you need to write and explain using bearings.
And if we have a scaled map, we can measure it (and do scale-drawing calculations) to calculate real-life distances!
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