Geographical Skills and Fieldwork | Enrich Education Archive - Enrich Education

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

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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Summary

Children will be put into small teams.
They will be given an Enrich School Orienteering Map with the markers clearly highlighted.
Children will move around the school and locate the different letters or numbers on the control markers.

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Activity Plan
Orienteering

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Activity Sheet
Orienteering
1st Number Course

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Activity Sheet
Orienteering
2nd Number Course

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Activity Sheet
Orienteering
3rd Number Course

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Activity Sheet
Orienteering
4th Number Course

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Activity Sheet
Orienteering
1st Letter Course

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Activity Sheet
Orienteering
2nd Letter Course

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Activity Sheet
Orienteering
3rd Letter Course

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Activity Sheet
Orienteering
4th Letter Course

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Summary

Children will be split into teams.
In a relay style race, teams will compete to collect and match up all symbols with their corresponding name first.

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Activity Plan
Symbol Sprint

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Activity Sheet
Symbol Sprint

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Summary

Children will be split into teams.
They must run and collect pieces of cut up map in a relay style race.
The group will then work together to form a completed map.

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Activity Plan
Map Memory

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Summary

Children will be split into teams.
They must run and collect pieces of cut up map in a relay style race.
The group will then work together to form a completed map.

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Activity Plan
Map Jigsaw

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