Geographical Skills and Fieldwork | Enrich Education Archive - Enrich Education

Summary

Students use their orienteering map to follow a route around control points on the school site.
As they travel between control points, they record information on their Activity Sheet.
This is based on the ‘4 D’s’ of navigation – Destination, Direction, Distance and Description.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet

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Sample Answer Sheet

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Summary

Students follow a route marked on a map of their school site.
Several different coloured beanbags have been left at points along the route.
Students must accurately record the location of each one until they have completed their route.

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Activity Plan

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Summary

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

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Activity Plan

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Summary

Students use a simple map and directional language to navigate around a course of coloured cones.
As they travel between cones, they add directional arrows to their maps to show the route they have taken.
They also record the numbers of the cones that they have visited on their map.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet
(Set Up)

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Activity Sheet
(Maps)

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Summary

Children play in small teams. Two teams play against each other.
Each team identifies a series of orienteering markers that their opponents must visit in a relay.
The first team to have visited each of the markers in the series and collected the specified information from each marker, wins the game.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet

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Summary

Children play in small teams. Two teams play against each other.
They try to sink each other’s battleships by identifying their locations, using six-figure grid references from their Enrich Orienteering Maps.
When they successfully identify the location of a battleship, they record marker number to show that they have sunk it.

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Battleships Orienteering
(6 Figure Grid References)
Activity Plan

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Battleships Orienteering
(6 Figure Grid References)
Activity Sheet

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Summary

Children play in small teams. Two teams play against each other.
They try to sink each other’s battleships by identifying their locations, using four-figure grid references from their Enrich Orienteering Maps.
When they successfully identify the location of a battleship, they record the marker number to show that they have sunk it.

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Battleships Orienteering
4 Figure Grid References
Activity Plan

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Battleships Orienteering
4 Figure Grid References
Activity Sheet

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Summary

Children work in a small grouop to plan a circuit which starts/finishes at one of the markers and incorporates several other markers.
The size of their circuit should add up to 1 mile when completed a set number of times.
They must measure the size of potential circuits by measuring the distance in cm between individual markers on their Enrich School Orienteering map and then converting this to metres, using the scale on their map.

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Daily Mile Activity Plan

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Summary

Each child is given a latitude / longitude reference.
They use this to identify a point on a grid and mark the point by placing a PE cone on the grid.

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Activity Plan
Latitude / Longitude

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Activity Sheet
Latitude / Longitude

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Summary

Children use a simple map to develop their map orientation skills, following a route around a marked court.
Cones are placed at specific points around the court and children record a reference from each cone they come to as they move along their route.

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Activity Sheet
Counting Court
Set-up and maps

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Activity Sheet
Counting Court
Answers

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Activity Plan
Counting Court

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