Warrington School/Envirethical/Envirethical Orienteering

= Envirethical Orienteering =

Equipment:

 * Flax or dead cabbage tree leaves
 * Map of school area
 * Paper
 * Clipboard or a something to lean against

Key competencies:

 * Thinking, Using language, symbols and texts, Managing self, Relating to others, Participating and contributing

Maths
Position and orientation – Levels 3/4


 * Use a co-ordinate system or the language of direction and distance to specify locations and describe paths.
 * Communicate and interpret locations and directions, using compass directions, distances, and grid references.

English
Speaking, Writing, Presenting – Levels 3/4 Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies confidently to identify, form, and express ideas.
 * Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with developing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.
 * Uses a developing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts

Method:

 * Pupils singularly or in groups
 * Name some cabbage tree or flax leaves (1 or 2 first time around)
 * Take the leaf and attach (tie loosely) to something in the school
 * Place a mark on the school map where it has been located
 * When all groups have attached their leaves maps are swapped
 * Groups hunt for other teams leaves and retrieve
 * Could be timed for competition
 * Repeat, except pupils write or draw a description of where the leaves have been attached on blank paper

Evaluation:

 * Pupils need to practice tying before commencing.
 * Recording pupils times gave an interesting overview of skills:
 * First to get clues placed
 * First group to locate all of other groups clues
 * Group whose clues were located first
 * Totaling of combined scores above for over-all group