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Activity: WW2 Rationing Race

Children are in teams. They use their orienteering maps to visit a series of control points and collect a ration coupon at each one. Each team then decides which foods they would spend their ration coupons on.

Summary

  1. Children use their orienteering maps to visit a series of control points.
  2. At each one they visit, they collect a ration coupon.
  3. As a team, they then decide which foods they will spend their ration coupons on.

    Key Facts

  • History
  • Key Stage 2
  • Key Stage 3
  • World War Two
  • Orienteering Control Markers Required
  • Orienteering Map Required
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