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If you get lost what should you do?

What are the  techniques for--
Walking Uphill:
Walking Downhill:
Walking in a group:
 

What do you see when you look up at the sky on a clear night?

Are  the positions of the stars you see early in the evening the same later that night?

Do the positions of the stars change from night to night? Month to month? Season to season?

The reason for the stars’ changes in position is that everything in space is moving. Just as the planets in our solar system revolve around the sun, the sun itself revolves around the center of the galaxy, and so do the other stars in our galaxy. Even the galaxy itself is moving.
 

 Have your teacher download the shareware program such as   (this is a 12mb program so download in advance.  It is a 15 day free trial.) to simulate the movement of the stars and planets over time.

Choose one of the following projects:

• Draw star charts for the present and 20 years from now. The charts should illustrate the location of three prominent stars, the planets of our solar system, and the constellation of the zodiac under which each group member was born.

• Use Starry Night to chart the same celestial objects showing how they would have appeared to the ancient Egyptians, the Druids in England, or the Anasazi people of the southwest United States.

• Use Starry Night to determine when eclipses of the sun and alignments of the planets will take place. They can use this program and the Internet to make a schedule of the next three solar eclipses visible in your area.

• Make a list of the constellations that would not have been visible to the ancient Egyptians, the Anasazi, or the Inuit Indians.