101 Top Tips for Expeditions - DofE in Suffolk
101 Top Tips for Expeditions - DofE in Suffolk
101 Top Tips for Expeditions - DofE in Suffolk
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<strong>Top</strong> Tip 44<br />
Practical navigational tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g outside<br />
Understand<strong>in</strong>g the map<br />
Seat participants at tables with enough maps <strong>for</strong> everyone. Take<br />
the team on a journey with the participants follow<strong>in</strong>g on the map.<br />
Us<strong>in</strong>g grid references, map symbols and distances to give a<br />
journey, young people should follow on the map and be able to say<br />
what they can see at each po<strong>in</strong>t when the leg stops, with regards<br />
to features and terra<strong>in</strong>.<br />
<strong>Top</strong> Tip 45<br />
Us<strong>in</strong>g the exercise above, plot your route on a version of electronic<br />
mapp<strong>in</strong>g and then fly through the route so that the teams can see<br />
how accurate their descriptions were to the terra<strong>in</strong> and landscape<br />
that they will see.<br />
<strong>Top</strong> Tip 46<br />
Use the above exercise, this time as a risk assessment tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />
exercise, with participants decid<strong>in</strong>g what the hazards might be at<br />
each po<strong>in</strong>t <strong>in</strong> the journey. They can decide what they need to do<br />
about these hazards and whether they need any extra tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g.<br />
<strong>Top</strong> Tip 47<br />
Use the above exercise aga<strong>in</strong> but this time ask the participants to<br />
design the journey <strong>for</strong> other participants to follow.<br />
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