Outdoor and Adventure - Lesson 6

In the sixth lesson of the Outdoor and Adventure series for Year 6, students are tasked with the exciting challenge of participating in a full orienteering course. The learning objectives are clear: students should be actively involved in the course, understand how to interpret symbols on a map, and orientate a map of their school grounds. The success of the lesson is gauged by the pupils' ability to complete the orienteering course effectively as a team. Key vocabulary for this lesson includes orienteering, points, teamwork, symbols, and orientate. To facilitate this, a range of equipment and resources is required, including picture boards, cones, clipboards, pens, markers, bibs, and a map jigsaw puzzle.

The lesson is structured into a warm-up, main activity, and cool-down. Initially, teams work on a map jigsaw puzzle, running to match map pieces with corresponding pictures, thereby encouraging communication and logical thinking. The main activity involves an orienteering course set around the school grounds, where teams use maps to locate markers and record their findings. The emphasis is on teamwork, with students encouraged to move at the pace of the slowest member and to communicate effectively. The lesson concludes with a cool-down session where students reflect on their learning over the past six weeks, discussing the skills they enjoyed and the challenges they faced, thus consolidating their experience in orienteering and teamwork.