In this constellations instructional activity, students read about the different constellations and how to locate them in the night sky. Then students complete 4 multiple choice and 7 short answer questions.

Students investigate why the North Star was important for navigation, how stars move across the night sky, how to locate the North Star, how to make a crude sextant, and how to determine latitude using a sextant and the North Star. They...

Students identify and use the starts to tell time just as people had for thousands of years. They identify the stars that appear to rise in the east and set in the west, and that those stars near the North Pole appear to go in circles...

Learners create an astrolabe and locate the North Star in the night sky. They determine the latitude of the North Star, and calculate an average latitude based on class results.

Describes seven different African American newspapers that were published in the 1800s. These were newspapers written by African Americans for an African American audience. Access to the actual newspapers is only available on this...