Editing SAR Fundamentals/Navigation/Overview

From PCSAR

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be recorded in this page's edit history.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.

== Subject ==
{{prompt|What is this lesson plan about?}}
Provides an overview of the navigation objectives of SAR Fundamentals.

== Authors ==	
{{prompt|List who wrote this lesson plan.}}
Brett Wuth

== Scope ==
{{prompt|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.

This lesson is an introduction to Navigation for SAR Fundamentals students.
It is part of a larger 8 hour series of lessons.

: SAR Fundamentals Manual: Ch.13 "Navigation"
: Basic SAR Skills Manual: Ch.7 "Navigation"
== Prerequisites ==
{{prompt|What should students already know/have accomplished before the lesson is presented.}}

== Objectives ==
At the conclusion of this lesson the participants:
# will be able to list the navigation skills a SAR worker should have

== Time Plan ==
Total Time: 15 minutes

Why we navigate
* people get lost due to poor navigation, not us
* describe where you searched

{{lesson slides start}}
{{lesson slide|00:00|3 min}}
Introduce topic title

Introduce Instructor

Present Objectives
{{lesson slide|00:03|}}
instructional points in normal font

''aids, exercises, activities in italic''

* 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

* Navigation training is split over several days

* We will get you from novice to intermediate skills.
* You will lose your skills if you do not practice them.

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

Advanced skills - not part of SAR Fundamentals:
* GPS waypoints, tracks, uploading and downloading
* latitude and longitude
* Legal Land Description, Road Numbering System, Municipal Approach Numbering System

== Aids ==
{{prompt|What materials are needed or useful in presenting this lesson.}}
{{prompt|What materials are needed or useful in presenting this lesson.}}
* 82G/8 and 82H/5 for each pair of students
* plenty of table space
* overhead projector
* screen
* {{link|Image:Navigation Overview slides.pdf}}

* slides of topo maps

* {{link|Members:SAR Fundamentals/Restricted/Ralph Eckman 2013-01}}
* {{link|Image:Nav Overview Cj2013.pdf}}
* [[Training/Ideas/Navigation Overview]]

== Question bank ==
{{prompt|List of questions suitable for an review/exam of this section.}}
See {{subpage|Question bank}}

== Frequently Asked Questions ==
{{prompt|What are some of the questions that students typically ask.  Include the answers.}}

== Feedback ==
{{prompt|When has this lesson been presented.  What was the feedback.}}

== License ==
{{prompt|What can others do with this lesson?}}

This work is licensed under a 
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Canada License.
To view a copy of this license, visit 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/
or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

== Reference Material ==
{{prompt|If you need to cite sources, do so here.}}

[1]

== Notes ==
{{prompt|Any additional notes, etc.}}
== To Do ==
{{rbw}}
* get Chris' slides

Please note that all contributions to PCSAR are considered to be released under the Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (see PCSAR:Copyrights for details). If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!

Summary:

Cancel | Editing help (opens in new window)

Templates used on this page:

Retrieved from "http://pcsar.dyndns.org:8080/mediawiki/index.php/SAR_Fundamentals/Navigation/Overview"

Editing SAR Fundamentals/Navigation/Overview

From PCSAR

Views

Personal tools

Navigation

Search

Toolbox

@@ Line 40: / Line 40: @@
 Present Objectives
-{{lesson slide|00:03|3 min}}
+{{lesson slide|00:03|}}
+instructional points in normal font
+''aids, exercises, activities in italic''
 * Navigation is essential skill for Search and Rescue workers
 * Knowing where you are
@@ Line 49: / Line 53: @@
 * Being able to plan a route to get there
-One of the most common problems in the field are searchers not being able to state where they are,
-followed by searcher headed in the wrong direction.
-{{lesson slide|00:06|5 min}}
+* Navigation training is split over several days
 * We will get you from novice to intermediate skills.
+* You will lose your skills if you do not practice them.
 Intermediate skills:
@@ Line 69: / Line 73: @@
 ** using a GPS for finding your location
-{{lesson slide|00:11|2 min}}
 Advanced skills - not part of SAR Fundamentals:
 * GPS waypoints, tracks, uploading and downloading
@@ Line 75: / Line 78: @@
 * Legal Land Description, Road Numbering System, Municipal Approach Numbering System
-{{lesson slide|00:13|1 min}}
-* Navigation training is split over several days
-* You will lose your skills if you do not practice them.
 {{lesson slides end}}