http://www.teachengineering.org/view_lesson.php?url=collection/cub_/lessons/cub_navigation/cub_navigation_lesson06.xmllessontext/xmlIntegrated Teaching and Learning Program, navigationtriangulationcompassbearingScaleLegendOrientationElevationTopographical MapContour LinesCompassBearing

In this lesson, students learn how to determine location by triangulation. We describe the process of triangulation and practice finding your location on a worksheet, in the classroom, and outdoors.

Engineers design systems that require precise and known locations, and often use triangulation calculations to do this. Engineers use triangulation with ground data to determine where in space a satellite is located. Accurately determining a satellite’s location is important to adjusting its position to keep it on course. Triangulation technology is also used to inform a robot of its current and target locations. Triangulation helps in spatial modeling to determine the area covered by cell phone transmitters, roadway noise zones, voltage maps and river high-water marks. Understand and describe how to use a map and compass to do triangulation and determine their location Understand and describe how to use a map and compass to do triangulation and determine their location.Understand bearing measurements Understand how navigation technology plays an important role in many types of engineering design 50TeachEngineering.orgMatt LippisPenny AxelradJanet YowellMalinda Schaefer Zarskehttp://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs03501.htmlS11416DDInternational_Technology_Education_Association-ITEA_STL_StandardsTechnologyF. Knowledge gained from other fields of study has a direct effect on the development of technological products and systems.68S114275BColoradoMathb. Apply properties of complementary, supplementary, and vertical angle relationships 88S1142658ColoradoMatha. Add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers including integers, positive and negative fractions and decimals 88S11425BDColoradoScienceb. Describe methods and equipment used to explore the solar system and beyond 88United StatesCopyright 2012 - Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulderhttp://www.teachengineering.org/policy_ipp.phphttp://www.teachengineering.org/2010-08-238Teacher