Field Trip

With the k nowledge of the motion of the sun, the ability to find solar declination online, and how time can be used to find longitude from previous lectures in class, students must make a device to measure the altitude of the sun using a straw...

This activity was made by John Huth for his Primitive Navigation class, so his students will have practical experience working with primitive navigation tools through this experiment. This activity will help students understand navigational stars. Using a...

Using their knowledge of the use of a compass, triangulation, and uncertainties, students set off to walk to the bridge at the end of JFK Street in Harvard. With a map, handout ( attached), and compass, they walk down a street (JFK street in this...

Students go to the Harvard Chapel and establish a coordinate system of 'easting' and 'northing' using simply their bodies, their environments, and a notepad. From the Chapel, the students are to walk a path that is a series of straight lines, and count...

The primitive navigation final project will involve researching a topic that requires data gathering and analysis, along with research into the history associated with that topic. The final presentation will take the form of a video that will be posted...

John Huth developed this activity for his SPU 26: Primitive Navigation class. The purpose of this assignment is to establish a baseline for their navigational skills. Students navigate Harvard campus to hold a course and estimate a traveled distance to...

Each week in "Pathways through the Andes," students examine and discuss 10-15 objects from the collection of the Harvard Peabody Museum. Students complete assigned readings on the various kinds of artifacts before their section meets in the object study...

In Law and American Society, Dr. Terry Aladjem's takes his students to visit a prison following a unit on punishment in order to apply theories of punishment to the real world. Before the trip, students spend about three sessions discussing theories of...

In Patterns & Processes in Fish Diversity (OEB 130), Professor George Lauder's students create entries for the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Students choose a fish that does not yet have an entry or only has a very sparse entry on the EOL. Students can...

Students collect cognitive maps of safe and dangerous parts of Boston via street interviews and write research papers on their original findings. According to Matt Kaliner, the goal of this assignment is assess ideas from class via data they collected...