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Use spatial vocabulary and a simple map to find checkpoints
"In orienteering, we use words like beside, between, close and far"
Set up clones and "landmarks" as shown.
Use a map crawn on a whiteboard to talk about the map symbols. Ask what features the colored dot symbols represent. Orient the map wrong and ask how to fix it. Point to a cone on the map and ask which one it is in real life. Have a student run there and back. Repeat.
Optionally, draw the map wrong (some cones in the wrong place) and have the students help to fix it.
Describe a cone with words ("find the animal closest to the red landmark"). Have a student stand next to the one they think it is. Repeat.
Hand out 5-checkpoint course maps and ask the students stand next to cone #1, with their map oriented. Check them, then have them move to checkpoint #2, and so on.
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Map with one cone circled
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