Year 8 - Physical education
Star orienteering
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 work in a pair and race to complete a star orienteering course.
Key Notes
- 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 .
Vocabulary To Learn
- 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 To Avoid
- Requirement to keep checking location to ensure on track. Regular stopping and time wasting as a result of re-orientating the map.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key 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.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'thumbing a map'
the technique of keeping your thumb on the map to track your progress as you move through a course.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Requirement to keep checking location to ensure on track. Regular stopping and time wasting as a result of re-orientating the map. Correction: 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.
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