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Book List

Short List – Staff Picks

Across the Curriculum

Alabama Neighbors

Big Screen

Canoeing

Compass Skills

Connections

Creepy Crawlies

Down To Earth

Feathers in Focus

Food For Thought

Forest Critters

High Adventure

Invention Convention

Map Masters

Native Americans and the Earth

Night Hike

Orienteering

Pond and Stream Studies

Refuge

Rock Query

Sense of Place

Sensory Awareness

Songs, Sparks and Stories

Team Adventure/ Team Challenge

Trail of Discovery

Woods Walk/ Value of a Tree

Orienteering

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The Basic Essentials of Map and Compass

 

ANF

M

Jacobson

Shows you how to use orienteering compasses to find your way to favorite birding spots, travel cross-country, or learn to orient in darkness or dense fog. A basic how-to book on cross-country travel.

How to Teach with Topogra-phic Maps

ANF

H

Van Burgh, Lyons, Boying-ton

Teaches students how to build three dimensional models from topographical maps (or the reverse, by constructing a topographic map of the school or camp). Help students visualize three dimensions from two dimensional maps, plans, models or simulations.

Available at the University of Alabama, Birming-ham

 

   

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