6.00pm
Mapping – bases
Two bases led by an adult – 15 minutes each
6.05pm
Map symbols Visit the Ordnance Survey website and download the most popular map symbols and teach these to your Beavers. If time allows, get Beavers to mime what they mean.
6.20pm
Setting a map: the Scale. Maps are of little use unless you know the scale and which way they go relative to where you are standing. Once your Beavers realise that each grid is 1km x 1km they can start judging distances. You can set a map be relating the features on it to the real world, (i.e. I have my back to the station, the public house is on my right and the telephone box is over there) or use a compass to find north. Then orientate the map so that the top (north) of the map points in the same direction.
6.40pm
Mapping Relay Game
Line up the Beavers in relay formation with a table for each Six at the far end of the hall. On each table is an Ordnance Survey map. In turn, each Beaver runs to the table and is asked by a Leader to find a particular symbol, i.e. motorway, a public house, a canal lock, a church with a tower. If they cannot find it, they must run back and collect another Beaver and both must try and find the symbol. Also devise questions on distance (i.e. how far is the viewpoint from J27 on the motorway?
