Tools of Navigation: A Kid's Guide to the
History & Science of Telling Time
Rachel Dickinson

Tools of Navigation: A Kid's Guide to the History and Science of Finding Your Way travels through the past and into the future to explore how humans have found their way from one place to another successfully and efficiently throughout history. Kids will track the evolution of navigational methods and tools, meet explorers and inventors who changed the way we look at the world, learn interesting facts and trivia, and work on 15 hands-on projects and activities to understand how civilization's vague abilities to avoid getting lost has transformed over centuries into a sophisticated ability to know exactly where we are on the planet at any given moment.and how civilization's vague abilities to track days and months has transformed over centuries into a sophisticated ability to keep time to the millionth of a second.