Wednesday 25 January 2023

Scouts - Compass Rose fill-in Relay game - English and Japanese

See attached .pdf file for printing: Scouts-Compass-Rose-fill-in-relay-game.pdf


PREPARATION:

Print the compass roses. These are displayed in one place or different places around hall.

Print the sheet of compass points on different coloured paper.

Cut up compass points to separate each point (or tearing up is part of relay done by Scouts in game, or use coloured chalk).

Draw or big rope mark one BIG circle on floor to be the compass rose. Mark where North is (or another point ;-)).

RUN GAME:

Fill in compass points relay: scouts run up, grab a point, have to place it on compass rose on floor.

One point at a time per team member.

Scouts can look at compass rose info, ask team members,

etc etc when they are placing point.

SCORING and REVIEW:

Go around compass checking each colour/team

1 point per correct placement

Ignore incorrect placements

Team Review go around and pick up incorrect

Placements and move to correct place.


COMPASS POINTS TEXT: The .pdf doc puts this in table for easier printing:

N S E W

NE NW SE SW

NNE NNW SSE SSW

ENE WNW ESE WSW

0° 22.5° 45° 67.5°

90° 112.5° 135° 157.5°

180° 202.5° 225° 247.5°

270° 292.5° 315° 337.5°

360° 30° 60° 120°

Japanese: Kanji - on reading in hiragana, kun readings in katakana

北 - きた (kita), ホク(hoku)

 南 - みなみ (minami), ナン(nan) , ナ(na) 

東 - ひがし (higashi),トウ(tou)

⻄  - にし (nishi), セイ(sai), サイ(sei) , ス(su)



CREDIT and Thanks Source and link for images:

https://www.japanesewithanime.com

https://freesvg.org/compass-rose-vector-sketch

Compass Rose with numerical degrees and compass letters

https://freesvg.org/dual-compass-rose

https://scontent.fdub7-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/17545534_426933854320885_4291733991453446202_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=lyIvtjGrkW4AX8b-yL9&_nc_ht=scontent.fdub7-1.fna&oh=00_AfAvwtniCXvTjYPQLXeuPhkWNvFA7rKAc1aU9Pu3XXrYmQ&oe=63F8CBC2


Compass Rose with numerical degrees and compass letters


Japanese and English compass rose - cardinal and in-between cardinal points to one level



Japanese compass rose with cardinal, in-between and in-between-in-between points
Kanji and romaji




Wednesday 18 January 2023

Scouts - Map and compass quiz updated

Quiz - Compass and Map and Leave No Trace see .pdf doc:

Quiz-CompassAndMap-And-LeaveNoTrace-And-CompassPointRelayGame.pdf

Parts of compass and parts of Map Quiz.
Need to have: Maps to give out or look at ideally 1 per group
Good to have: Simple baseplate compasses

Leave no trace - Quiz or woruld work better as walking debate maybe.

Compass Points relay game.