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Fireworks

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feux d'artifice tout posteYou have here the all controls map and an example of course below. At each blue point, you have between 3 and 4 possible combinations. So you can make many different courses.

Go with your group to the blue point. At the given signal, “fireworks”: each runner goes on the path indicated by the purple dot on his map. We check that each runner is on the right path, and we go to the next blue point.

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  • This exercise doesn(t need to put out controls and in a group, so perfect with a group of young beginners.
  • plan many courses so that at each blue dot, the young people who find themselves on the same path are not always the same ones (otherwise they quickly understand that they do not need to think too much…)
  • In order for the blue dot to appear on all the courses, create an object in Ocad and check the box “not used in the route projects”. (OCAD 9 😉)

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Nathalie Rauturier

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North stories

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The target is to learn to orientate your map with only the compass. Draw a course on paths only and put a control at each intersection.
Make a blank map and extract each leg. At each control, the runner uses the compass to orientate his map and to know which path he should take. 

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  • boussole debutantTurn the leg extracts so that North is not always at the top of the sheet. The orientation of the map cannot be done with the route just taken
  • BOUSSOLEFollow the route alltogether. Stop in the middle of a path at each change of direction and ask which path you are on (A, B, C, D or E)

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Nathalie Rauturier

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Numbered cones

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Set up a network of 17 cones. Number the cones on the drawing .
Print out cards by shifting the numbers of the cones. You get 16 different cards (see the example beside).
Hand out your cards. Call out a number. Each person has to go to the corresponding cone  ( nobody will be on the same one, except if you have more than 16 runners).

Alternative

  • change the location of the start cone to confuse the runners (the orientation of the map has changed)
  • call out one number, then another one, without returning to the start

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If you have 10 young people, hand out cards with numbers for the first cone, which “are following” each other ( 1,2,3 …). When you call “12” for example,  you will immediately see who made a mistake, because the runners should be on cones next to each other. It is convenient not to have to check that each person is at the right place.

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Nathalie Rauturier

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Magic square

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You need to set up 9 markers (cones ?), as shown on the right.

Follow the course below on these cones following these instructions:

  • The triangle is the central cone.
  • Featured imageWhen you have made your first move, the orientation of your map is determined
  • Follow the directions indicated without taking into account the distances
  • Keep going and if you are correct, you return to the central cone, the start

File with 7 courses

Alternative

  • you can time the exercice
  • Here is another version. Be careful, the start and the finish are on the outside of the 3 by 3 square ( look at the file that shows the location of the cones). The orientation of the map is given by the start cone and the 3*3 square.
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It is an easy way to introduce map orientation to beginners

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Sandra Olivier (Rédaction: Nathalie Rauturier)..et Eric Brassart