ADVENTURE DAY BY ORIENTEERING 

”The school battle”

This proposal of “Adventure Day” is based on cooperation between the students, knowledge of nature, outdoor activity, mathematics, orienteering and adventure. You can also use this event as a “School battle” between the classes and divide each class into groups of 4-6 students in each group, split equally between boys and girls. It is great to use the nearby recreation area.

In the “School battle” the students collect points and each collected point (by individual or by the team) counts. In this teamwork all individual performances are valuable. Be it theoretical or practical. The adventure day is divided into three parts. In the first part the group will visit seven controls and at each checkpoint, carry out a task that gives points to the group and to its class The second part consists of an O-course with punching, close to the start (see the dashed line on the map). Each completed round gives 1 point. Part 3 consists of a number of riddles that the group has to solve (5 points/correct answer).

The final “winner” is the class that together have collected the most points.

1  Birds

At the first station the students have to connect our most common birds with the sound of bird song. The teacher of Biology is responsible for the activity. The teacher plays six different songs of bird (15 seconds per bird) and the students have to connect the song to the correct bird.

• Max time: 3 minutes

• Each correct answer: 2 points

                                           
2   Map Memory

The students have to connect two similar “map card” with each other. From the beginning, all cards are up and down and the students turn up the cards as they do in the “Memory Games”.

• Max time: 3 minutes

• Each correct pair: 2 points

3   Puncture

Mending a puncture of a bicycle tube using a bucket of water and bike repairing stuff that you usually have in the saddle.

• Less than 2 minutes: 10 points

• Less than 3 minutes:   9 points, and so on

 4   The European puzzle

Students put the puzzle together to figure Students put the puzzle together to figure out how far it is e.g. between the capitals of Spain and Ukraine. The students have to know where the countries are located and what scale the map puzzle has. We say that the scale is 1: 100 000 000, and the measured distance between Madrid and Kiev is 283 mm, which means that there are 2830 km between these capitals. You don’t need to put all the pieces together, it is enough to put the pieces of the puzzle needed to measure the distance between the points.

• Max time: 3 minutes

• 2830 km (+-) 100 km: 10 points

• 1 point deduction for every 100 km more or less than 2830 km 

5   Connecting object with symbol

At the fifth station, the students should transfer a number of terrain objects to the correct location on the map. The option is to show a picture and a map from another area.

• Max time: 3 minutes

• Each correct answer: 2 points

6   Building a stretcher

• Two poles and a roll with thicker string is enough to build a sustainable stretcher. The students build the stretcher in a smart way, one member of group plays injured and the rest of the group have to carry the wounded comrade a round of about 50 meters in the forest.

• Less than 3 minutes: 10 points

• Less than 3.30 minutes: 9 points

• Less than 4 minutes: 8 points and so on

7   The wooden log

At the last station, the students have to be agile and smart. The teacher puts the students on the wooden log in the order of age from left to right. The youngest student at left. At the teacher’s starting signal, students move on the wooden log so that the ranks from left to right are on the basis of the shortest to the tallest student.

• Less than 1 minute: 10 points

• Less than 1,15 minutes: 9 points

• Less than 1,30 minutes: 8 points and so on

• Every step on the ground: -1 point

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