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International Talk Like A Pirate Day (Sept 19)
Argh mateys! This day ye be talkin' like a pirate, or ye be walking the plank!
By knowing which way is north, we can know where all the other directions are. So navigating in a pirate ship is a lot easier with a compass. Learn how to make two different compasses here.
Before we had GPS, how did people navigate from one place to another? How did pirates travel accurately from one place to another to blunder other ships? They used navigation instruments like these!
