Lesson video

Hey there, it's Mr. Roberts here.

And as part of your year five PE curriculum I'm going to be teaching you a unit of indoor orienteering.

And in the first lesson, what we're going to be looking at is finding and hiding objects using clues.

So good luck, and I hope you get a great deal from this lesson.

Like in all PE lessons, you need to have some equipment.

And the equipment we're going to use in this lesson is equipment that we're going to be hiding, and equipment we're going to be finding.

So it needs to be small enough to carry.

And they're going to find five items, and all five items which he carried at the same time so please don't get something too big, and please don't get something too small.

And I'm going to give you some examples of the sorts of items that I would be using, if I was playing this game the way that you're going to be playing it.

So the first item I'm going to show you is just a toy soldier.

Not very big, not very small, but a perfect size for what you need to do.

The second item is my toy robot.

Again, not particularly big not particularly small but easy to carry.

The third item is a bunch of keys.

Now you might need to borrow these off someone and please don't lose them in your activity.

The next item is a pen.

Something a little bit smaller, so you can be quite sneaky when you hide it.

But again, it's not so small that it's impossible to find.

And my final item is a cuddly Dalmatian, a small cuddly toy not particularly big, not particularly small, but easy to carry.

So my challenge to you is to go and find five items. So pause the video, go in and find yourselves five items that you can use in this activity.

And then come back to the video when you found them.

And I'll see you in a couple of minutes.

Okay, good luck.

So the first thing we must do is we must look at, some really important vocabulary.

Now it's really important that we learn the key words that are linked to the subject and the subject is indoor orienteering.

So there's two key phrases I want you to remember.

The first key phrase is the course setter.

And this is quite obviously it's the person who sets the course, and controls where the person who's actually going to be doing the orienteering goes to.

And the second key word or key phrase is orienteer, and that's the name of the person who's looking for the clues or looking for the objects or looking for the controls, in the course that's been set.

So the first activity is called Find Five.

And what you're going to do is you're going to decide who is going to do what job.

So one of you is going to be the course setter and the other person's going to be the orienteer.

Now the orienteer must close their eyes, whilst the course setter go and hide all five items around your living space in plain sight.

So that means they're not so well hidden that no one will ever find them ever again, put them in plain sight so when the orienteering is looking for them, once they're near there'll be able to see them.

Now that we've got some really important safety rules that we must remember.

The first safety rule is, don't hide them in unsafe places.

So that might mean on top of something where someone has to climb up, or underneath something which could maybe topple over, or anywhere which is wet, or anywhere which maybe has electricity or heat.

So let's hide them in places was in plain sight but are also quite safe.

And the second really important safety rule is, when you're moving around the space, just think about being sensible and don't rush and don't hurry so that you don't knock into anything or knock anything over.

So orienteer close your eyes, the course setter take your five items, so I've got my dog and I'm ready to go and hide it.

Go and hide your items in plain sight or somewhere around the living space.

And then come back to the screen.

So pause the video and go and hide your items. Orienteer get those eyes closed, and let's get ourselves ready.

I will see you in a couple of minutes off you go.

So the orienteer is now going to open their eyes, and they're going to go and find those five items. Now the course setter you don't need to give them any clues, they're simply going to go off and see if they can find those five items and bring them back to you and you're waiting by the screen.

Just remember you don't hurry, you don't rush, you keep your eyes open and you walk away around the living space and see what you can find.

So good luck.

Pause the video, and come back when you've got all five items off you go.

So how'd go? You've hidden the items, and you've found the items and you've both had at least one or even two or even three goes at this activity.

So let's try and make it a little bit harder.

So this time what going to do is you're going to hide the items, in slightly more challenging places.

Again not too difficult and not too unsafe.

And the orienteer is going to go and find them, but this time the course setter you can walk around with them, and as they're getting close, you can say warmer or if they're a long way away from the item you can say cold.

But that's the only communication you're allowed to give each other during this activity.

Have a go and then switch it around.

And I want you to have at least two goes at this where you're starting to give each other some clues, as to when they're getting close or when they're a long way away from the item they're looking for.

Pause the video, go and have a go.

And when you're ready come back, and then we can move it on, and we can make it even more challenging.

So we're going to move it on now to the next activity.

And this activity is called clues.

And this is where we're going to start using what we call spatial vocabulary.

So what will happen is the course setter, you're going to go and hide just two items. And when you come back, you're then going to send the orienteer to go and find those two items, but you're going to give them some clues to go and help them.

And you can use spatial words.

So you might say it underneath something or above something or to the right of something to the left of something or whatever.

So for example, you might say it's above the sofa or it's on the left-hand side of the bed.

So it might sound like you're trying to make it quite easy but it's really not because the key thing is that you're giving them spatial words, so they know where they're looking.

When you found the two items, bring them back and then swap around and have a go.

Try this two or three time and then we can move it on.

So pause the video, go and hide the items. And then the orienteering can go and find the items using the clues that you're going to give them using spatial words.

Hey, well done.

So you went off and you found those two items using the spatial clues that your partner gave to you.

Now we're going to move it on.

And now they're going to hide three items and they're going to give you the information, and you've got to go and find the items in the same order as the clues that you're given.

So the course setter will hide the three items. The orienteer will go and find those three items in the same order.

So for example, they might say the first item, is on top of the sofa.

The second item is in front of the washing machine.

And the third item is on the left-hand side of the television.

And you must go and find those three items in the same order that the course setter gave them to you.

Switch it around.

, and when you've got three, then try it with four.

And when you can both do four, then you've got to do all five.

But remember you've got to go to them in the same order that the course setter gives them to you.

So pause the video, and then go and have a go at three items, and then four items and then five items. And then come back to the video, after you've done all five items and you've done them in the right order.

Off you go good luck.

Excellent, so you've done that activity really well.

So you've gone off and you've found five objects, and you've done them in the correct order, and you've brought them back to your partner.

So this time we're going to take it to another level and we going to do it slightly more challenging way, but we're almost going to do it in reverse.

So what will happen is the course setter, will describe five locations around your living space, using the same spatial words that we talked about before.

So they might say it above something or below something or by the side of something or between something.

And what you're going to do is you're going to go and hide those objects in the places that they're described.

The course setter we'll give five locations, and the orienteer will take the five objects, and they will go and hide them in the place for the course setter describes.

Once you've hidden them you come back to the screen, and you meet up with the course setter and then you're going to go off together and you're going to show them where you've hidden the objects.

And what they're going to do is they're going to tell you whether you've hidden them in the correct places.

Once you've both been round and you've found all these objects that you've hidden using their instructions.

You're then going to switch it around.

And you're going to give the instructions, and they're going to go and hide the five objects.

So you might say, I want the first subject to be in front of the television.

I want the second object to be on the left-hand side of the bedside table or whatever.

But you got five objects, but you start off with the clues.

The whole activity is the reverse, of the last activity that you did.

Once you've been and done this once each, come back to the video screen and then we can discuss how the lesson's gone.

So pause the video, and off you go.

Excellent, so you've done some indoor orienteering, at a very very simple level at the moment.

So how did you get on? So the first activity was called Find Five.

And I want you to think about what we did, and have a chat with your partner, about how you got on so that you would have two roles.

You had the course setter who was hiding objects such as a cuddly toy or a bunch of keys, and the orienteer had to go and find those objects.

And they were just hidden in plain sight with no clues.

So how did you get on? Did you have a tactic or a strategy, or did you simply just randomly wander around until you found what you were looking for? You had two or three goes at it, did you get better at it? So have a think about that and have a chat to discuss how you got on.

When you had that chat let's think about the second activity we did.

We did an activity called clues where the objects were still hidden, but now the course setter remember we had a course setter and an orienteer.

The course setter gave very simple clues, to the orienteer about where they'd been hidden.

And they were using what we call spatial information.

So the spacial clues where it was to the left of, by the right of, underneath, above, in front of, or whatever, but it was spatial please.

So how did you get on with that? How did you remember when you had to do five items? Did you have a tactic or a strategy to remember the order you're given it in? And the third question to you to have a think about is which did you prefer? Did you prefer being the orienteer where you were going off looking for objects, or did you prefer being the course setter, where you actually had to set the challenges for your partner? I think I personally prefer being the course setter I quite enjoy setting challenges for people.

But some people prefer actually actually looking for things.

So have a think about those things.

And now I'm looking forward to seeing you for the second lesson where we're going to move it on to another level, where we're going to start introducing, some signs and symbols to go with the objects we're looking for.

So I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson and well done today.

You've done really, really well.

Thank you very much.