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Geography Search
 
cooperative-table-group "sailing ship crews" learn geography skills and lessons of history while competing to be the first to navigate to the New World
 

   


HMS WINDSONG's crew enters wind direction and calculates their course heading
crew members record information for their respective jobs...
...Latitude Measurer, Longitude Measurer,
Wind Recorder, Provisions & Depth Recorder
back at their desks crew members swap information for their navigation logbooks and plot their position on their maps...
...before planning the next "day's" (turn's) sailing
here HMS GOODSPEED has reached the coast of mystery continent and considers whether to follow the coast north or south
Kieran's turn to be Captain (manning the mouse)
HMS SEAWIND has reached land -- it seems to be a low marshy coastline here
crew of the SEAWIND
crew of the HMS ALERT takes their turn at the computer
...then it's back to their desks to swap information and update their position on their maps
HMS GOODSPEED'S Taylor makes an entry in her Navigation Logbook journal
as does fellow crewmember James
crew of the HMS COURAGEOUS confers on setting their course heading
...then takes down vital statistics at the end of the day's sailing