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Hello, my name is Mrs. Wylie, and I'm here to take you through the second of the key stage four remote learning: outdoor adventure activities and problem solving unit of work.

Now, these lessons have all been planned so you can hopefully get involved and join in, no matter where it is you're learning today.

This lesson in particular is all about route planning.

Can you plan and map a route that others could follow?

For this lesson, you will need a safe space to work in, nine soft markers, pen, paper and scissors, four to eight plastic containers or stones, a Google map printout of your area or a drawn map if that isn't possible, and a parent/carer support if you decide to navigate away from home.

Our outcome today is I can plan a route using a map and compass direction that others could follow.

Our keywords.

The first one, orienteering.

Orienteering is an activity where you use a map to navigate and find specific locations.

We're gonna be doing a little bit of this today.

There's lots of orienteering routes that are set up probably in your local area, so if you enjoy it, definitely go and have a look at doing some more.

Your second key word is to orientate.

To orientate is to turn your map so it lines up with the actual directions and features around you.

And our final key word, trust, believing that someone or something is reliable, safe, or will act in a positive way.

So we're gonna be thinking about our trust today.

Let's get started and warm up.

Can you create a compass as large as possible with soft markers, showing north, south, east, and west?

Your first task is to stand in the center, run to north, run back to the center, then go to east, center, south, center, west, center, north, center, and we're gonna repeat going back in the other direction, so to west, center, south, center, east, center.

You're then gonna add markers for northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest, and we're gonna repeat stage two with the added directions.

So starting in the middle, we're now gonna go north to the center, northeast to the center, east to the center, southeast to the center, south to the center, carrying on all the way around to our compass and then working back again to the start.

By the end, you should be feeling nice and warm and ready to go.

When orientating, a compass helps us navigate within our environment, so whenever you're moving around orienteering, that compass is gonna help you work out which direction is which.

Can you orientate your markers to match where true north is?

So before you start your warmup, can you try and make sure that your north marker is actually pointing towards north?

So maybe use a compass if you have one or a compass app on your phone, or even have a look on Google maps, and it will identify for you in which direction is north, so you could orientate your markers so they actually line up with those compass directions.

And then can you identify your point in your home for each compass direction?

So for example, what is the furthest point to the north?

What is the furthest point to the northeast?

And could you maybe add an extra challenge, stand in one central spot and move to each direction in turn?

So rather than just moving around in that circle shape, you could be moving to your furthest point in your home or wherever it is you're working today that represents the furthest north, southeast, west, all of those points around the compass.

Up to you what level of challenge you want to opt for, but have a look at the pupil having a go in a circular fashion in her living room, make sure you know exactly what is needed of you, and then go and have a go yourself.

Get your body nice and warm and ready to go, and then come back to me and we'll move on with our lesson.

Good luck.

Okay, so in today's lesson, can you plan and map a route that others could follow, it's broken down into two learning cycles.

Firstly, we have the scavenger hunt, and secondly we have designing routes.

Let's start with scavenger hunt.

Maps all look really different.

To enable you to read a map successfully, you must be able to orientate it.

Orientating a map means to turn it so it matches the direction of the world around you.

Lucas said, when a map is orientated correctly, north on the map lines up with north in real life, features on the map match what you can see around you, and navigation becomes more simple and accurate.

If you haven't done this before and you do have a print out of a Google Maps of your home area, maybe you could practice navigating it, so you could put it down on the ground in line with where north is representing.

If a map is not orientated, left and right can become really confusing, routes are harder to follow, and mistakes happen much more often.

Laura said, can you draw a map of the space you're working in?

If you have a ground floor which leads into a garden, maybe change yourself to draw the two spaces side by side.

Make sure you identify all landmarks, such as furniture, doors, trees and steps, and keep the map orientated as you draw.

So thinking about your space, wherever it is you are working today, can you draw a map that represents it using simple lines and marking on any of the key features that would help you always make sure your map is orientated in the correct direction?

Pause the video, draw your map, and then come on back.

So orientating a map is a skill that improves with practice.

Stand in your space with your map that you've just drawn facing the correct direction and keep it orientated as you move.

Walk around your space and use your path to write the first letter of your name.

So you can see the student here has drawn her map, which represents her ground floor of her home and her garden, and you can see her out in the garden, and she is walking out what looks like a Z on the floor, keeping her map always imagining as it falls from the sky to land in that orientated position.

If you pause the video and have a little go, you'll understand much more what it is that we're talking about.

Then come back, and we'll check our understanding.

Really well done if you had a good go at that task.

Now can you show me?

Can you move around the perimeter of your working space with your map, keeping it orientated at all times?

Now, you could use the perimeter of one room or you could use the perimeter of your garden.

It's completely up to you, but go away and have a go at keeping that map orientated as you move around that space, and then come back and we'll check to see how you got on.

Well done if you did that.

So your map should have faced the same direction throughout, and your body should have turned around the map.

Your movement should have been smooth without stopping to reorientate.

So if you look at this pupil as she's moving around in her garden, you can see when she changes direction, her map stays where it is, and she moves around the map to keep it orientated.

Well done if you had a go at that.

So Laura and Lucas are reflecting on their movement when orienteering.

Lucas says, "I definitely move very slowly when concentrating on orientating my map.

" Laura said, "I think you'll speed up as you get used to it.

Orienteering requires you to move efficiently and change your pace to suit the environment.

How to move in open space in your garden will be very different to how you move through tight spaces in your house.

" That's super true.

Let's check our understanding again.

So orienteering requires you to move efficiently and adapt your pace to the environment.

Is that true or false?

Great job if you said true.

Why?

Orienteering requires you to move efficiently and adapt your pace, because different environments and route choices demand different speeds, helping you navigate accurately, safely and with control.

So make sure as you're working through the rest of this lesson and beyond that you're adapting your speed depending on the space you're in to keep you safe and allow you to cover the ground as quickly as possible.

Let's move on to our first task, shall we?

Firstly, you will need your map that you just drew out and a pen.

You need to mark a start point on your map by drawing a triangle, and this is a symbol that will mark the start in any orienteering route.

Keeping your map orientated, move safely around your space.

Collect one item at a time, mark where you found it on the map, then return to the start with your item.

Time how long it takes you to collect and correctly mark all the items.

If you don't have an item, just replace it with something safe and similar.

So your items that you're gonna move to collect one at a time, indoors, you're gonna try and find a pair of glasses, a hat, a jumper, a book, a bag, a torch, a pillow, a coin or a teddy.

Now, the person in the video in a second, they didn't have a torch in their home, so they collected a phone charger instead.

Feel free to change the items that work for you.

Outdoors, you could collect a stone, a leaf, a stick, a plant pot, a flower or something green.

Now, this pupil did this activity when it was really quite wet and miserable in winter, and they had no flowers in their garden, so they went for a clothes peg instead, so again, change your items as necessary.

Feel free to do just an indoor route or an outdoor route, or, like the student in the video, she did both indoors and outdoors, so you choose.

Make sure, though, that you clearly orientate your map as you move to help you mark the circles where you find your items accurately.

Watch the little video and see what she got up to, and then have a go yourself and come back to me, and we'll reflect.

How did you guys get on with that?

Orienteering requires you to move efficiently and adapt your pace to the environment.

Do you think you managed to move efficiently through your space?

Lucas said he changed his pace to move carefully between his back door and the garden.

He can move quickly in the garden, but he took his time moving around the house.

Did you manage to change your pace depending on where it was in your learning space?

Maps should be orientated in the same direction as the terrain around you.

Did you manage to practice using an aerial view and lining up your map and orientating it correctly as you moved around?

Lucas said, "I was good at this and kept my map as a bird's eye view of my working area.

" Well done, Lucas.

Let's move on to our second part of this lesson: designing routes.

Orienteering happens in the great outdoors.

Practicing these skills in a more confined environment can help with your confidence building.

Confidence in orienteering doesn't mean being perfect.

It means trusting your decisions and adjusting when needed.

Confident navigators commit to their decisions.

Nervous navigators stop, doubt and lose accuracy.

And in a real orienteering course, how quickly you find all of your pointers is the most important thing, so we don't want to waste time by doubting ourselves, so we must make sure that we practice our orienteering skills so that we can trust our decisions and move with purpose.

Our scenario: two pupils are given the same map and route.

Both know how to orientate the map.

One trusts their decisions and moves calmly.

The other keeps doubting, stopping and turning the map.

Who is more likely to finish accurately, do you think?

Is it the person who's pausing and doubting, or is it the person who trusts their decisions and moves with calmness?

Who is more likely to make mistakes out of those two people, do you think?

And why?

Maybe pause the video and have a quick think about those questions, and then come back and we'll check our understanding.

Hopefully you got on okay answering those questions about that scenario a second ago.

Let's check our understanding.

To successfully orientate and navigate using a map, what do we need?

Is it A, arrogance, B, confidence, or C, ignorance?

What do you think?

Really good job if you said B, confidence.

Confidence is really important, and if we can do all the steps that we're talking about, there's no reason we shouldn't be confident in our actions.

Laura and Lucas are discussing how they would go about completing a challenge together.

Lucas says, "It will be so important that we trust each other.

Without trust, we could be confused, frustrated, and we could probably fail.

" Laura says, "True.

We also must collaborate.

A shared goal, clear roles and good listening to each other is bound to lead to success.

" I think you're right, Laura.

Lucas says, "It's a shame we can't actually do it together.

I could set up a route in our local park and send you the map so you could have a go.

" Laura says, "That sounds great, Lucas.

I could do the same in return.

I definitely trust that you would design me an orienteering route that is both fun and safe.

" Another check for understanding, then.

True or false?

You can complete a challenge successfully together without interaction and joined up thinking.

What do you think?

Is that true or false?

Good job if you said false.

Now, why?

Because trust and collaboration are important, because they allow people to work effectively towards a shared goal.

When trust is present, individuals feel confident relying on others, and when collaboration is strong, ideas, effort and responsibility are shared.

Let's move on to our task B.

Ideally, work at your local green space, but if that's not possible, use your garden or complete it at home using your map drawn in task A.

If you're going out in your local green space and you have permission and support from a family member, download a Google Earth image zoomed in on the space you want to use, and you can use this as your map.

Alternatively, if that's not possible to print something out, just draw it out by hand.

You need to use a compass to mark on the direction of north, and then on small slips of paper, write down individual letters of a word of your choice, so for example, kindness.

In the video, the pupils use the word physical.

Using plastic containers, or stones to weigh each letter down if it's dry, place your letters around your working space and mark them on the map using a pencil.

Now remember in orienteering, control points are marked with circles, so mark each of your points with a circle on your map.

Then mark with a triangle where your person needs to start.

If possible, ask a family member to try out your course, collect the letters, and work out the word.

If no one's available, though, you could just complete your route again yourself, maybe timing you how long it takes you to collect all the bits back in, and then maybe have a go at setting up a second and more challenging route.

Have a little watch of the pupil in the video.

She sets up her route, and then she still has her friend around, so her friend moves around and collects them all back up using the map she's put together for her, and then she works out what the word is in the end.

Once you've had a little watch, go and have a go yourself.

Enjoy being outdoors if possible, and if not, remember you could always do this task in your home, using your map that you created earlier of your home, marking on your circle control points and just putting around your letters around your home.

That is more than okay and will still allow you to build in confidence in your orienteering skills.

No matter what, have fun with it, and then come back to me and we'll reflect on how you've done.

Enjoy.

How did you get on?

Now, orienteering requires you to move efficiently and adapt your pace to the environment.

Did you manage to do that?

I know the pupils in the video that you saw were able to run nice and fast through the big wide open areas, but they were much more careful when they were moving around trees or navigating moving over the bridge.

Laura said she adapted her movement as she ran around the park setting up her course for her friend.

Were you able to orientate and navigate using a map requiring your confidence?

I'm hoping by now you've built a good bit of confidence, and you were able to do that.

Laura said she's now really confident with orientating her map, and she keeps going smoothly as she moves around her map.

Really well done, Laura, and I hope you guys had similar experience.

To complete a challenge together, that requires trust and collaboration.

Now, hopefully you managed to find somebody else to work with this on, but if you didn't, maybe wait until a bit later or when someone else is around, and have a go at working together to design a really fun course for someone else to complete.

Laura said she enjoyed completing the orienteering route, designing it with her friend in the park, and they trusted each other and worked hard.

That's great.

Well done, Laura.

Let's move into our cool down, shall we?

Move slowly around your working space, completing the following actions.

Start with some arm circles coming forwards and then backwards, repeating these a few times as you move slowly around your area.

Complete some upper body rotations, moving to your left and to your right, and then come into some leg swings, swinging your opposite foot forwards to your opposite hand, stretching out the back of those legs.

Do these a good few times to bring yourself back down to resting rate.

When you're ready, come to a stop and hang your body forwards, reaching down to the ground, stretch up through your back and through your hamstrings.

Now, while you're working, complete a little reflection.

Can you think about how your map orientation went today, and how you did overall in your orienteering?

Did your orientation of your map allow to really support your performance in your orienteering and allow you to complete your routes nice and quickly?

Also have a little think about your commitment.

Could you continue to make use of orienteering activities and maybe explore other opportunities in your local area?

Can you see if there are some orienteering routes already set up anywhere that you could have a go?

Or could you maybe take a map of the local area and do something like this with your family for fun?

Take your time on your cool down, moving through those movements, and definitely take some time going through your reflections and thinking about your commitment, and then when you're done, come back to me for a summary of this lesson.

Really great job today, guys.

We've completed some really good activities there and really developed our thinking.

Orienteering has required you to move efficiently and to adapt your pace within the environment.

Your maps have been orientated in the same direction as the terrain around you, and you've been able to orientate and navigate using a map which has required your confidence.

You've also completed a challenge together, hopefully, that has required your trust and collaboration, and if you haven't yet managed that learning outcome, then maybe try and have a go at that in the near future with somebody in your home or a friend.

Really impressed today with your work, everybody.

Hopefully, you'll manage to explore your environment and see what else is out there to do some more orienteering and navigation.

I've definitely enjoyed working with you today, and I hope you make use of some of the other lessons that are available to you to learn remotely.

Well done, everyone.