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Smithsonian Institution: Time and Navigation

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Explore navigation methods by sea, air, and space, what latitude and longitude mean, how GPS works, about satellite navigation, and learn about professional navigators. Includes a timeline of developments in navigation from 1280 to the present. There are also interactive activities, primary source materials, profiles of famous navigators, and so much more. There is a wealth of information at this site.

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Concepts
latitude and longitude, navigation
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Additional Tags
famous navigators, global position system, global positioning system, gps mapping, history of navigation, how does gps work?, land and sea navigation, managing the land, mapping the earth, navigation in the air, satellite navigation, smithsonian institution, global position systems
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information