Pointing in the Right Direction

What and experience we just had! Today the year 7 and 8 extension had a crash course on compasses with Mr Jacobsen. I for one learnt heaps probably I didn't get it right and I ended up lost! Here is our Extension Experience.

Mr Jacobsen arrived into the creative space where the extension classes are held. He walked in and we immediately sat on the mat, where he was setting up a presentation. The tightly read (Pointing in the Right Direction),  this confused me and so I sat down in confusion and curiosity. When we were all seated Mr Jacobsen changed the slide and started to explain. It was pictures of compasses he told us about compasses that were different and that they did the same thing.

Then he changed the slides and we saw an arrow pointing to what was called the base plate and direction arrow. Mr Jacobsen explained that all compasses have it and that it may look different on other compasses. The direction arrow it the arrow pointing us towards our destination and what we should.\

When Mr Jacobsen finished his presentation we headed for the field to find our starting point. Me and Amira worked together, as well all know too heads are better than one. Anyways our starting point was in front of the girls toilets. We ran their and decided on what we had to do, we wrote down the letter and entered the co-ordinates and headed to the next point.

Me and Amira were going quite well and even though we weren't completely accurate. So we decided to go to the next one we did quite well and were going pretty quickly. Me and Amira talked all the way and we very very giggly. I for one was really excited and couldn't wait till the end what will happen with we do the pink one are we doing it right, their is no way to really tell.

The last stop me and Amira made was the point next too room 28. We got their and the point was pointing right towards the girls toilet so we decided to head back to the middle of the field. We handed our paper to Mr Jacobsen and waited for a reaction or some kind of instruction.  When the paper got handed back to us I was actually quite suprised and also didn't know what I had done wrong.

We set off from the begging and with some help from Ms Flavell we kept going we got to the second point but we still got it wrong and we ran out of time. However with some decoding and unscrambling we did find out the worlds and we also learnt how to use a compass. it was really useful and Ms Flavell also said (She isn't going into the Forest with me and Amira) it was really funny!'

Overall I think that this was a fun experience and was really helpful. found out that it was much harder to navigate and we should always take our time. I also learnt that me and Amira don't make a good team when it come to navigating but talking on the other hand. I really like this activity and would love to do more things like this!