KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Star orienteering
Outdoor adventurous activities: physical and intellectual challenges
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can work in a pair and race to complete a star orienteering course.
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Star orienteering: 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 work in a pair and race to complete a star orienteering course.
Key learning points
- Move: altering your pace of running, will allow you to complete a route as a team.
- Think: thumbing the map and noticing key features along the route allows you to track your progress.
- Feel: being able to orientate and navigate using a map requires confidence.
- Connect: retracing your steps when you get it wrong requires resilience .
Words to know
- thumbing a map
- the technique of keeping your thumb on the map to track your progress as you move through a course
- reflect
- carefully considering how something went to include the result and what lessons can be taken from it
- resilience
- staying strong and positive and not giving up when faced with challenges
Common mistakes
Requirement to keep checking location to ensure on track. Regular stopping and time wasting as a result of re-orientating the map.
Thumbing the map means tracing your route as you move along the map to represent where you are on the map at any given time.
For parents, carers and teachers
- In learning cycle 2, you can either use your own school orienteering set up or you can use the AdMat to create your own star route.