No.37
Score Orienteering
Japanese name: オリエンテーリング
Materials
- Course maps
- Control markers with numbers and symbols
- Answer sheets and writing tools
- A clock
How to play
- An adult places 5–10 controls in a safe area and marks their locations and point values on a map. Identify the base, off-limits areas and finish time.
- Assign map-reading, recording and timekeeping roles, then discuss the route. An adult accompanies early-primary groups.
- Start on the signal and stay together while finding map locations. Copy each control’s symbol onto the answer sheet.
- You may skip difficult locations. If unsure where you are, return to the last known location.
- Return together by the deadline. Add the points for correctly found controls, check people and equipment, and finish.
Ways to adapt
Younger primary school children: adult accompaniment. Older primary school children: discuss route order and point values.