Explore your school site
I can navigate the school site responsibly using a map.
Explore your school site
I can navigate the school site responsibly using a map.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: altering your pace of running will allow you to follow a route and navigate through checkpoints as a team.
- Think: thumbing the map allows you to track your progress around a course.
- Think: line features include roads, fences and buildings.
- Feel: being able to orientate and navigate using a map requires confidence.
- Connect: refining navigation strategies requires you to work together as a team.
Keywords
School values - the moral expectations that guide our behaviour to be more successful citizens
Responsibility - being in charge of your actions and their outcomes. It involves making good choices and doing what you're expected to do.
Navigation - the process of accurately ascertaining your position, planning and following a route
Common misconception
Losing track of time or becoming distracted by the freedom of navigating without the direct supervision of a teacher.
Focus in on school values and responsibility to retain the privilege of independence.
To help you plan your year 7 physical education lesson on: Explore your school site, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 7 physical education lesson on: Explore your school site, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
Explore more key stage 3 physical education lessons from the Outdoor adventurous activities: teamwork, fitness and movement skills unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
1 map per group of 4 cut into 8 pieces, a laminated school map, whiteboard, pen and blank control point (see additional materials) per pupil, 1 demo control point (own example or additional materials)
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - outdoor learning
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
