KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Map skills and use of a compass
Outdoor adventurous activities: physical and intellectual challenges
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Your learning goal
I can use a map and a compass to navigate to different control points.
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Map skills and use of a compass: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can use a map and a compass to navigate to different control points.
Key learning points
- Move: running longer distances requires a slower pace.
- Move: maintaining an even and consistent stride length helps with pacing and navigation.
- Think: bearings can be taken on the compass by lining up magnetic north on the map with magnetic north on the compass.
- Feel: working on an independent new challenge requires patience and persistence.
- Connect: working together requires shared responsibility and a willingness to listen to each other in any disagreement.
Words to know
- control point
- a specific location marked on a map to navigate to that is typically marked by a plaque or flag
- compass
- an instrument that helps you find your bearings and stay on course by identifying magnetic north
- bearing
- direction or position of something relative to a fixed point. Measured in degrees with magnetic north as zero
Common mistakes
Forgetting to align north on the compass with north on the map before navigating
Hold the compass next to the arrow representing magnetic north on the map and rotate your body until the arrow on the map and the arrow on the compass line up with north, then keep the map facing that way even when you change direction.
For parents, carers and teachers
- If you do not have your school site mapped, an alternative is to use year 7 lesson 7 explore your school site.