F & S Activity 1.5 Flight Planning (PLTW) - Part 1

If you are an English Language Learner, please open a separate tab and use Google Translate to better understand this lesson.​

​In this activity, you will create a flight plan for a flight that has been chartered to fly to a music festival. As part of the flight plan, you will plan the flight path, or route, for this flight. But before you can do that, you need to learn how to use navigation tools, find locations, and interpret maps.

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Before you start creating your flight plan, let’s explore a basic navigation tool—the compass rose. A compass rose is a symbol on a map that shows the cardinal directions of north, south, east, and west. Sometimes the compass rose will display the directions in between the cardinal directions -- northwest, southwest, northeast, and southeast. These are called intermediate directions.

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Where is HOME on a digital map?

​Follow these directions:

1. In a separate tab, open Google Maps.

2. Click the LAYERS icon in the lower left corner of the screen.

3. Click TERRAIN to see the map view with the topography features

4. Find your home on the map (Type your home address into the search box in the upper left corner that says Search Google Maps, then Select Search) and notice all of the landmarks around it.
5. Click the raise hand button to let me know that you have found your home on the digital map