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Navigating to Freedom With the North Star
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Audience: Educators and StudentsGrades: 5-12
Year: 1999
This video segment explores how the North Star is a proven navigational tool. Viewers learn that since the North Star remains in the same location in the sky, the space shuttle and the International Space Station use the North Star to align their navigational systems. Slaves using the Underground Railroad used the star to guide them to freedom.
Navigating to Freedom With the North Star
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds
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This video clip is part of the Underground Railroad: Connections to Freedom and Science DVD that may be ordered from the Central Operation of Resources for Educators, or CORE →.
Other video learning clips in this series:
Follow the Drinking Gourd: Using the Science of Astronomy in History
The Importance of Waterways in the Success of the Underground Railroad
Slaves and the Use of Horticulture Along the Underground Railroad
The Science Behind the Maps of the Underground Railroad
Exploring and Preserving the Underground Railroad With Modern Technology
Archeological Research and the Underground Railroad Today