Year 8 - Physical education
Map skills and use of a compass
Outdoor adventurous activities: physical and intellectual challenges
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Unit Summary
This unit explores pupils' ability to respond effectively to problems and physical challenges, both individually and in cooperation with others. Developing awareness of others and ability to work in teams is essential to success in life and in this unit.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use a map and a compass to navigate to different control points.
Key Notes
- 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.
Vocabulary To Learn
- 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 To Avoid
- Forgetting to align north on the compass with north on the map before navigating
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: running longer distances requires a slower pace. Move: maintaining an even and consistent stride length helps with pacing and navigation.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'control point'
a specific location marked on a map to navigate to that is typically marked by a plaque or flag.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Forgetting to align north on the compass with north on the map before navigating. Correction: 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.
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