Educating the Young
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Educating the Young
I talked myself in to doing four sessions of Orienteering with yr 2/3 children. Any ideas. I've done one session before which was a treasure Island Story leading to making a map. I also have a dressing up relay which I think will work. I will also get them punching but am unsure of level at which to pitch it as I normally work with yr 5/6 or older
Diets and fitness are no good if you can't read the map.
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HOCOLITE - addict
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Definitely making it as novel and fun as possible but including core elements of orienteering in the background.
A razmataz prizegriving with free stuff would go down a treat with the winners and would hopefully encourage them to carry on.
A razmataz prizegriving with free stuff would go down a treat with the winners and would hopefully encourage them to carry on.
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pyrat - [nope] cartel
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I've found that Y2/3 can cope pretty much with any of the standard schools stuff: netball court orienteering (do the star exercises first!), building up group maps with star exercises based on them (keep the legs short and visible), miniloops, etc. You do get a lot of headless chickens, but as long as the environment is correctly set up....
Everything needs to be broken down far more into smaller steps (so the group maps already had part of the map drawn in), and objectives are more limited: I spent a block of lessons using a lot of different activities to make sure they could set and then use a map recognising a few symbols. One or two of the brighter ones were ready for parkland standard short white courses by the end, others were still learning.
I also find that setting a map with a compass (I used tthe clip on ones) is much easier to learn than the usual way of using the ground, so I tend to introduce them at a far earlier stage than some do.
I tried out the Mike Pearson video on them: the song went down brilliantly (personally, I find it excruciating, but then I'm not 7/8 years old!), and they certainly remembered it when revising setting.
As pyrate says, make it fun, make it different, but then you already know that! Hope that helps.
Everything needs to be broken down far more into smaller steps (so the group maps already had part of the map drawn in), and objectives are more limited: I spent a block of lessons using a lot of different activities to make sure they could set and then use a map recognising a few symbols. One or two of the brighter ones were ready for parkland standard short white courses by the end, others were still learning.
I also find that setting a map with a compass (I used tthe clip on ones) is much easier to learn than the usual way of using the ground, so I tend to introduce them at a far earlier stage than some do.
I tried out the Mike Pearson video on them: the song went down brilliantly (personally, I find it excruciating, but then I'm not 7/8 years old!), and they certainly remembered it when revising setting.
As pyrate says, make it fun, make it different, but then you already know that! Hope that helps.
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awk - god
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ooooooh, something all the little 1's do on our training is practise pacing......put a sweet on the ground n then do like 4 double paces north, 4 east , 4 south and 4 west and hope u come back 2 your sweet!! he he, i luv that game.....tho maybe thats a little too advanced for yr 2's....
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Jene - addict
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old School Richard and Susan Jackson were the stars of that video-
"Turn your body round the map, Turn your body round the map..."
"Turn your body round the map, Turn your body round the map..."
Now, I know you're a feminist, and I think that's adorable, but this is grown-up time and I'm the man.
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Sorry for the delay in replying...I was off yesterday taking two year four classes. We did a 16 cone grid thing to practice moving the body round the map, the netball court map exercise (on short netball courts) and then finally a 12 control course round the school grounds- we'd mapped it at 1:1,000 (in colour!). Gaffles caught some of them out, but otherwise I think it was well received.
If possible, find out how much work the class may have already done - either on O or map work.
If you haven't already, get in touch with Pauline Olivant via BOF (I think she's your Dev Officer anyway now) - she has some good ideas already on Word docs that she can e-mail you if you ask nicely
If possible, find out how much work the class may have already done - either on O or map work.
If you haven't already, get in touch with Pauline Olivant via BOF (I think she's your Dev Officer anyway now) - she has some good ideas already on Word docs that she can e-mail you if you ask nicely
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I always used the 16 cone grid, but talking things over with Pauline, she suggested the netball court exercise was a better one to start with when introducing younger ones (and use star exercise first before going on to routes). Pauline has got a master set of maps which she can email you for printing out.
I've used the the 16-cone grid successfully for years. At the younger end, I start with a single grid on a sheet of paper. Cones on ground are differently coloured, and one of the first things the children do is fill the colours in correctly. Then do various 'join the dot' routes.
Later on, use a sheet with 12 minimaps of grids. Each minimap starts at a control, and finishes at the adjacent control, which is also the start of the next map. Can therefore effectively do a mega-long route, linking the maps together. Can also start children on different starts from each other. Great exercise for teaching folding of map, thumbing. reading the map ahead, maintaining smooth rhythm etc. Also, I often don't include any orientation arrow to start with, so can discuss the need for one (the map can be any one of 4 ways otherwise), and then get chilldren to draw it in.
Start off with a sheet with straightline joining the dots, then progress on to a second sheet where routes pass between controls, and include loops etc.
A fair bit of this will be way too hard for Y2/3 though. I'd start off with netball courts, then go on to using a map, then come back to grids for variety and building skills up later.
How did the session go PorkyFatBoy? Any comments on above?
I've used the the 16-cone grid successfully for years. At the younger end, I start with a single grid on a sheet of paper. Cones on ground are differently coloured, and one of the first things the children do is fill the colours in correctly. Then do various 'join the dot' routes.
Later on, use a sheet with 12 minimaps of grids. Each minimap starts at a control, and finishes at the adjacent control, which is also the start of the next map. Can therefore effectively do a mega-long route, linking the maps together. Can also start children on different starts from each other. Great exercise for teaching folding of map, thumbing. reading the map ahead, maintaining smooth rhythm etc. Also, I often don't include any orientation arrow to start with, so can discuss the need for one (the map can be any one of 4 ways otherwise), and then get chilldren to draw it in.
Start off with a sheet with straightline joining the dots, then progress on to a second sheet where routes pass between controls, and include loops etc.
A fair bit of this will be way too hard for Y2/3 though. I'd start off with netball courts, then go on to using a map, then come back to grids for variety and building skills up later.
How did the session go PorkyFatBoy? Any comments on above?
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awk - god
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Bearing in mind it was only the first school thing I'd done, I thought it went quite well, although it was tight on time, and you can always think of ways of doing it better next time. Thinking about it now, it may have been better to do stars on a netball court first rather than the 16 cones. (But the PE co-ordinator also sent me the 16-cones exercise, so I thought I ought to use it)
Had the map of grounds prepared and then found out I'd only been given an hour with each class, but I was determined to use it!
Reviewing the control cards from the 4 courses (really - one course with 5 gaffles, running in each direction), there are some kids who get it and some who remain navigationally challenged!
Had the map of grounds prepared and then found out I'd only been given an hour with each class, but I was determined to use it!
Reviewing the control cards from the 4 courses (really - one course with 5 gaffles, running in each direction), there are some kids who get it and some who remain navigationally challenged!
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PorkyFatBoy - diehard
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Thanks for the colour cones and joining dots idea. I have loads of cone games but aimed at year 5/6 with numbers and letters for sums and maths, but I thought I could 'nt use them with youngsters cos they'd be too difficult. My main problem is gauging it to the kids. I suspect they will be fairly bright as I think the school is a high achiever.
Thanks for the colour cones and joining dots idea. I have loads of cone games but aimed at year 5/6 with numbers and letters for sums and maths, but I thought I could 'nt use them with youngsters cos they'd be too difficult. My main problem is gauging it to the kids. I suspect they will be fairly bright as I think the school is a high achiever.
Diets and fitness are no good if you can't read the map.
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Very late reply here...but its DEFINITELY "Move your body round the map"... the song sometimes haunts me in my sleep!
I want to walk up the side of the mountain, I want to walk down the other side of the mountain. I want to swim in the river, lie in the sun. I want to try being nice to everyone.
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and i like orienteering, grrrrrrr.rosalind wrote:Very late reply here...but its DEFINITELY "Move your body round the map"... the song sometimes haunts me in my sleep!
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