The document summarizes an upcoming orienteering field trip for students. It includes: 1) An overview of the activities which are street orienteering with questions, team orienteering challenges, and using maps to navigate. 2) Instructions for preparing including forming teams and roles, and planning routes between controls. 3) Details of the team challenge course layout and scoring system based on correct answers and timeliness. 4) Safety guidelines and what to do if a team gets lost.

1. Orienteering Field Trip
May 2013

2. Today’s Presentation
• Field trip to Fresh Pond
– Street orienteering
– T orienteering
– Team Challenge
• How to use a map to navigate
• Preparing for the trip
– Meet with your team to choose roles
– Learn how to do your role
– Work with your team to plan your route

3. Field Trip: Street orienteering

4. Street orienteering
• At each control your team will need to
answer a multiple choice question.
• Your team gets 1 point for each correct
answer.
• Different teams may have different
controls.

5. Field Trip: Team challenge
Teams of 6. Teams must ALWAYS STAY TOGETHER.
All teams can get the optional red Landmark controls (101 through 106)
Each team gets a few of the purple Team controls, so that the class gets them all.
Home base: Start and finish

6. Field Trip: Team challenge

7. Earning Points
• Each team gets 1 point for each correct answer in the
Street orienteering (5 possible for each team).
• Each team gets 1 point for each of the 6 shared
Landmark controls.
• The class gets 5 points for each of the 15 Team controls,
plus all the team’s Street and Landmark points.
• PENALTY: 1 point PER MINUTE if you are late
returning to the Finish after the Team Challenge. (Bring
a watch if you have one!)
• Class prizes:
– 130 points (the maximum): prize A
– 115 points: prize B
– 100 points: prize C

8. Keeping track of points
• Street controls: Answer card
• Landmark controls: Punch card
• Team controls: Envelope
• Bring all the cards and envelopes back to the
Finish to be checked in, or else you won’t get the
points!
• When you find the puzzle envelope, bring back
both the envelope and the flagging tape!

9. Safety
• Stay with your team at all times
• Return to the Start/Finish on time

10. Safety

11. Safety
If you get confused,
head to the
south end of the pond
Do not cross any
roads with cars on
them!

12. How to find South end of pond?
• Compass
• Sun (will be a little east of south)
• Use features on the map
• Asking a passer-by where the water
treatment building is

13. Estimating distance
• 1:5,000 One centimeter on the map is
5,000 centimeters (___ meters) on the
ground.
• How big is a centimeter?
• A pace is two steps. Approximately how
many of your paces make 50 meters?

14. Orienting the map
• Hold the map parallel to the ground.
• Rotate the map until the map is correctly
aligned to the ground.
• Features
• Compass
• Sun

15. Reading
the Map

16. What next?
• Teams get together and decide who will
have each role
• People with the same role get together
and do specialized training
• Teams get back together and plan each
leg of their route

17. Team Roles
• Planner
• Feature Reader
• Distance Estimator
• Direction Diviner
• Problem Solver
• Caretaker

18. Planner
• With the other planners, decide which
team will get which of the Team controls
• Leadership: responsible for teamwork.
make sure team members work together
well and everyone is heard

19. Feature Reader
• Make sure the team is looking for features
• Know the symbols on the legend

20. Distance Estimator
• Understand what 1:5000 scale means
• Know how to pace count

21. Direction Diviner
• Know how to use the compass to orient
the map
• Know how to use the sun to orient the map
• Make sure the team is heading the way
they want to go

22. Problem Solver
• Offer solutions when there is a problem
• Ask others for suggestions when there is a
problem
• Help team make compromises when
necessary

23. Caretaker
• Make sure everyone is included
• Give positive feedback and cheer
teammates on

24. How to plan a leg of your route
• A “leg” goes from one control to the next one.
• Agree on the best way to get from one control to the
next.
• Use a highlighter to draw the route in on a map.
• Write down:
– What direction will you be heading when you leave the control at
the beginning of the leg?
– What features will you see along the way? (Features include
hills, reentrants, trail intersections, open areas, railroad, etc.)
– How many paces will the leg be? How many paces between
features?
– What is the feature you are looking for at the next control?

25. Example
Plan a route from 105 to L.
Discuss this and then go to the next slide. Assume that 100 meters = 70 paces.
Home base: Start and finish
Start of leg
End of leg
Use this scale
to estimate
distance

26. Example: 105 to L
Walk south along the trail from control 105. Along the way we will see the pond on
our left beyond a fence, and a hill going up on our right. After 80 m (56 paces) we
will take a trail on the right going up hill. The trail will bend to the left and then to the
right. At the next bend to the left we will find our control L.

27. What next?
• Teams get together and decide who will
have each role
• People with the same role get together
and do specialized training
• Teams get back together and plan each
leg of their route

28. (The rest of this presentation is for
the Feature Reader role!)

29. Water

30. Man-made Symbols

31. Rock

32. Vegetation
(White) Open forest

33. Ground Shape

34. Contour lines

35. Sea level
http://raider.muc.edu/~mcnaugma/Topographic%20Maps/contour.htm

36. 10 feet

37. 20 feet

38. 20 feet

39. Elevation

40. Hill

41. Spur, Reentrant

42. Saddle

43. Example

44. Example

45. Reentrants

46. Find some hilltops

47. Hilltops

48. Where are the reentrants?

49. Reentrants

50. Find saddles