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Activity: Locate the Marker

Children apply map reading skills to navigate around the school site, using their Enrich interactive map. They locate the 15 orienteering control markers around their school site and record the location for each one on their interactive map.

Summary

  1. Children use their interactive orienteering map to navigate around the school site.
  2. Each time they locate an Enrich Control Marker, they record its location on their map.
  3. They continue until they have marked the locations of all 15 markers on their map.

    Key Facts

  • Geography
  • OAA
  • Key Stage 2
  • Key Stage 3
  • Geographical Skills and Fieldwork
  • Interactive Map Required
  • Orienteering Control Markers Required
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