Something I think you should know -
Navigation for City Kids.
"When the sun is shinin you only need to know that it rises from the east and sets in the west. In order to find north more quickly you could also put a stick in the ground and mark the end of its shadow four times in half hour intervals. Connect the dots to form a line. North lies at a right angle to that line. In the dark a clear night sky will provide a reliable pointer in the shape of Polaris (the north star), an especially bright star that you can find by looking at the Plough. Draw an imaginary line between the two stars that are furthest away from its handle. Elongate this line by five times the distance between two starts to locate the North Star"