Bio-degradable Cabbage Tree Leaves

Envirethical Orienteering

Equipment:

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

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.

Speaking, Writing, Presenting – Levels 3/4

Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with developing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.

Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies confidently to identify, form, and express ideas.

Uses a developing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts

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

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