SAR Fundamentals/Navigation/Overview
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| + | This lesson summarizes what navigation skills the students are expected to gain over the several days of SAR Fundamentals. | ||
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| + | * Navigation is essential skill for Search and Rescue workers | ||
| + | * Knowing where you are | ||
| + | * Being able to find yourself on a map | ||
| + | * Being able to tell someone else where you are | ||
| + | * Being able to describe where something is that you see | ||
| + | * Understanding where you are asked to go | ||
| + | * Being able to plan a route to get there | ||
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| + | * Navigation training is split over several days | ||
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| + | * We will get you from novice to intermediate skills. | ||
| + | * You will lose your skills if you do not practice them. | ||
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| + | Intermediate skills: | ||
| + | * map reading | ||
| + | ** being able to recognize the symbols and shadings on a topo map | ||
| + | ** reading the elevation and shape of land | ||
| + | ** choosing a route based on features of the land | ||
| + | ** UTM - stating a location in terms of numbers | ||
| + | ** measuring distance on a map | ||
| + | ** measuring direction on a map | ||
| + | ** triangulation | ||
| + | * Field measurements | ||
| + | ** pacing distances | ||
| + | ** using a compass | ||
| + | ** using a GPS for finding your location | ||
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| + | Advanced skills - not part of SAR Fundamentals: | ||
| + | * GPS waypoints, tracks | ||
| + | * latitude and longitude | ||
| + | * Legal Land Description, Road Numbering System, Municipal Approach Numbering System | ||
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Revision as of 21:15, 5 February 2012
Contents |
Subject
What is this lesson plan about?
Provides an overview of the navigation objectives of SAR Fundamentals.
Authors
List who wrote this lesson plan.
Brett Wuth
Scope
What is included in this lesson, what's not and why.
This lesson summarizes what navigation skills the students are expected to gain over the several days of SAR Fundamentals.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this lesson the participants:
- will be able to ...
Time Plan
Total Time: 15 minutes
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00:00 3 min |
Introduce topic title Introduce Instructor Present Objectives |
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00:03
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instructional points in normal font aids, exercises, activities in italic
Intermediate skills:
Advanced skills - not part of SAR Fundamentals:
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