IGG VOYAGER: Compulsory Challenge 03 OUTDOORS
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Description
The Guides will learn how to follow tracking signs in the outdoors. (Relay /Setting Trails)
Resources
Copies of the Tracking Signs
Card game per Patrol
Paper
Pens
Sticks, stones, which the Guides should find themselves outside
Instructions
Begin by familiarising the Guides with tracking signs. Use the signs on
the next page to show and explain the tracking signs.
Then play the card game provided on following pages
Divide the Guides into their Patrols
There are four instructions and four different tracking signs
that can be used for each on sheet
Print sheet onto card, one for each Patrol/group in different
colours if possible. Cut into square card
Cards can be hidden or relay game played for Guides to
collect their cards
Guides re-assemble cards, matching tracking signs to
instructions
You could also give Guides blank paper and ask them to draw tracking
signs.
Activity
In their groups, get the Guides to make their own tracking
board, see next page for overview
Divide the group into two teams
Using the signs learned get each team to lay a tracking trail
Give the teams 15 minutes to set the trail and then swap over
so that each team follows the other’s trail
Get the Guides to go back over the trail after the activity and
tidy up in order to Leave No Trace
Debrief
Talk to the groups about how easy they found it to lay the trail, and to
follow the other team’s trail. Did they enjoy it?
Tags
- Branch Weekend 2018
- Camp at home
- Guide Guiding Traditions
- IGG
- Interest Badge Guide Guiding Traditions
- Leave No Trace
- outdoors
- Tracking Signs
- trail
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