1. JUNIOR CYCLE PHYSICAL EDUCATION
ADVENTURE ACTIVITIES
Orienteering

2. Aim Adventure Activities
To develop students personally, socially and physically through adventure activities, in a safe and enjoyable environment.
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3. What is Orienteering???
A family of sports that requires skills to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unknown terrain
A Competitive sport that combines running with navigation
A Cross country race where you have to find controls

4. There are four activities taught in one academic year
Operational Context
Syllabus content is presented at two levels.
LEVEL ONE
Introductory experience
LEVEL TWO
Deepens understanding and enhances level of performance
There are four activities taught in one academic year

5. Orienteering Level 2 Skills Pacing Distance Estimation
Understanding Scale
Understanding Legends
Setting the map/Map Orientation
Thumbing the Map
Country Code
Line Orienteering Event
Photo Orienteering
Level 2 Skills
Pacing
Distance Estimation
Score orienteering Event
Cross Country Orienteering Event

6. There are three things common to all maps:
Scale
Legend
Direction

7. Understanding Basic Maps. Understanding Scale What is a map
Understanding Basic Maps Understanding Scale What is a map? A bird eye view of an area of land. There are three things common to all maps 1. Scale, 2. A Legend and 3. North Show the class an Ordinance survey (os) map of half the country 1:250,000 Show the class a os map 1:50,000 And an orienteering map 1:10,000 What is the difference between each? The scale (1cm = 2500meters, 1cm = 500m, 1cm = 100meters. (1cm is roughly the width of your finger). So how does an orienteering map differ from the above? Smaller area, more detail etc. Looking below at landscape model. You have buildings, ruined walls, fences, walls, lakes, rivers etc. Map 1 shows what they look like on a map. Take away buildings, walls etc and what do you get (map 2) Map 1a &1b Get Your wood work department to make this model Map 2

8. Legend
Link in with fun relays and work up towards a legend relay game

10. Direction
Where is North. Do fun events running to different directions in hall (ie North, south, east, west. NW etc). Show next slide setting the map and its importance. Get students to draw triangle onto thumb (its function is for maintaining position on the map. Link everything into setting the map event

11. Setting the map is directly linked to direction. Orientate the map
Setting the map is directly linked to direction. Orientate the map. Use in conjunction with setting the map game

12. Thumbing the Map A development skill for Orienteering and Mountaineering. The idea is that your eyes will zoom in on the painted arrow on your finger and your position on the map. In turn you will be able to follow your progression as you move across the terrain. If you have a large map. It also aids you to fold the map to the region you are navigating in.

13. Do relay linking images to the country code
Followed by the punch relay. Cards 1 to 10 SEN
Both of these relays address SEN

14. LINE EVENT - HRA
Explain That the line follows haNDRAILS Addresses students SEN wheelchair sight
HRA QUESTIONS ON ROUTE Task 1 answer questions, Task 2 questions and mark on the map, Task 4 Questions mark on map and mark photo for bonus points
SEN Basic photo. Advanced Group harder more obscure image

15. PHOTO ORIENTEERING © Jcpess 2008
SEN Basic photo. Advanced Group harder more obscure image
Mark on map location of photo.
© Jcpess 2008