UK Orienteering

Pupils in year 3 and year 4 enjoyed finding out more about which creatures live in our school grounds.  It was great fun doing an orienteering course to discover which creatures could be found in each location on the map.  We used an aerial map of the school to help us.

We enjoyed it so much that we had a proper orienteering map done of our school so we hope to do more orienteering in the future.

 

 Here are some photos of us finding out information about local animals during our orienteering course.

Orienteering game from Turkey

Our school garden isn't a good place to play this game so we went to the National Park in our town.We were divided into three groups and each group had to find its animal cards.

We read the maps carefully to find the correct place.It was a bit difficult for us as the park was very big

After we found the cards,we answered the riddles on them

We learnt how to read a map and the animals in our region.It was wonderful, we enjoyed a lot. We will do it again

Orienteering games

Orienteering activities in Poland

This is the map of our school ground.

     In the classroom we have listed the names of the animals living in the schoolground. After that, we went outside and we had some orienteering activities. Using the map we had to find the correct place and then our task was to solve the animal riddle. 

When we discovered the name of the animal, we were looking for the picture of this creature.

      Finally, we have found all the animals living near our school. There was a pidgeon, a rabbit, a grasshopper, a magpie, an ant and a hedgehog.

       It was a great experience for us. We have learnt how to use a map and we have studied about the animals from our schoolground.

We had a wonderful time!!!!

Creature Hunt Orienteering in Spain

Map of the school playground

Pupils in year 1, 2, 3 and 4 enjoyed doing this orienteering course to find 6 local animal cards in the school ground. They used a map to find some clues and the correct place of the animals. The animals they had to find were: a chameleon, a cat, a rabbit, a lynx, a black pig and a dog.

Creature hunt-orienteering in Hungary

ANIMALS OF THE SCHOOL GROUND a mole
a hedgehog
an ant

a blackbirda bee

a pigeon

the map of the school ground

a quiz about our animals

Finding the animals with the map. An ant is found here.

We have found a picture of a hedgehog.

A mole lives in our European garden.
the map of the school ground

What animal lives here? A blackbird.
reading about the ant

finding a picture of an ant

We have found a picture of a bee.

Here we are with a picture of a pigeon.

We enjoyed the creature hunt in the school ground in September 2011. We used a map to find the animals. Here are our animals of the school ground: a hedgehog, a bee, a mole, an ant, a pigeon and a blackbird. The cards of the animals were hidden e.g. under a log or on a tree. We had to read the description of the animals carefully so as to do the animal quiz at the end.