Orienteering | Enrich Education Archive - Enrich Education

Summary

Children use their Phonics and Number Map to locate control points listed on their activity sheet.
At each control point they locate, they note the image from the Phonics and Number Control Marker.
They then ‘cross-off’ the image from the set of images on their activity sheet.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet 1

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Activity Sheet 2

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Activity Sheet 3

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Activity Sheet 4

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Activity Sheet 5

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Activity Sheet 6

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Phonics and Number
Marker Images

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Summary

The activity sheet shows images from the phonics and number markers.
Pupils have to find the control marker which has that image on it.
They then have to identify its location on their orienteering map and record the control point number on their activity sheet.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet 1

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Activity Sheet 2

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Phonics and Number
Marker Images

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Summary

Two teams or individual students start from the same point on a ‘circular’ orienteering course.
They complete the course in opposite directions.
The first team/student to return to the starting point is the winner.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet 1

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Activity Sheet 2

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Summary

Control points are allocated different scores according to their distance from the starting point.
Each time a team member visits a control point and records specified information from the control marker, they gain the points score allocated to that control point for their team.
The team that has scored most points at the end of the game are the winners.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet

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Marker Images

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Summary

The teacher calls out a sequence of control point numbers.
Teams must remember as many of these as possible and identify their locations on their map.
When the game starts, they must visit as many of the controls as they can remember and record information from the control marker at each one.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet

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Marker Images

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Summary

Teams begin by estimating how many skipping ropes they will need to span the distance between two PE cones.
Team members visit control points and record information from the control marker to enable them to collect ropes from a central stock.
They must try to collect and join enough ropes for their team to span the distance between the cones before the central stock runs out.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet

.docx56 KB

Marker Images

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Summary

A team of attackers plays against a team of defenders.
Attackers attempt to capture orienteering control points by approaching them and identifying and recording information from the control marker.
Defenders attempt to prevent them by tagging attackers and so turning them into defenders.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet

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Marker Images

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Summary

Teams are given a set of control points that they must visit.
Each team plans a route for how they will visit these control points in the shortest time possible.
They then follow their route, recording the required information from each control marker.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet

.docx4 MB

Marker Images

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Summary

Two teams play against each other.
Each one plans the longest route possible around a set of control points and then swaps routes with their opponents.
Each team must then follow the route they have been given and attempt to complete it before their opponents.

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Activity Plan

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Activity Sheet

.docx4 MB

Marker Images

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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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