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Compass Games for Scouts | Map Making and Orienteering Activities

Engage in compass and pacing courses with map-making and orienteering games for scouts. Enhance navigation skills, solve puzzles, and have fun outdoors. Visit our website for interactive compass courses up to 50 sides with random distances.

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Compass Games for Scouts | Map Making and Orienteering Activities

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  1. MAP & COMPASS GAMES

  2. Alan M. Lord New York State Professional Land Surveyor Cub Master Pack 55 Greene

  3. New York StateMake your own map of the state draw places you know

  4. United States

  5. Map legend GameMatch the Name to the symbol

  6. PARTS OF A COMPASS

  7. Figure out your pace

  8. Put your compass and pacing to the test • COMPASS AND PACING COURSE • Web site www.scoutorama.com/orienteer_game/ this site makes up courses for you up to 50 sides with random distances TRIANGLE • (Same Direction) • Bearing Azimuth Distance • 1. N-0-E 0 200’ • 2. S-60-E 120 200’ • 3. S-60-W 240 200’ • SQUARE • (Same Direction) • Bearing Azimuth Distance • 1. N-0-E 0 300’ • 2. N-90-E 90 200’ • 3. S-0-W 180 300’ • 4. N-90-W 270 200’

  9. Games to play with your compass • Blind Guide: Two scouts both with compasses. One scout puts a paper grocery bag over his head he can only look down to see his compass the other scout guides him thru a course or to a certain point by giving him compass bearings to follow. • Solve the word: Hang the letters of the alphabet in a circle. Give the scout a bearing for each letter in the word on a piece of paper and let them solve for the letters and figure out the word. • Find the prize: Make a compass course with prizes, candy, food or a gold spray painted rock at the end of each leg. • Determine the missing leg: Make up a 3 sided compass course, but only give scouts 2 of the sides and let them give you the bearing and distance back to the starting point. See how close they come to what it should be. • Find a direction: On index cards write North, South, East, West and could also add NE, SE, SW, NW if you want. Shuffle the cards, each boy picks a card, then the leader pick a direction for north and the boys need to stand in the correct spots.

  10. Web Sites • WWW.learn-orienteering.org • WWW.scoutorama.com/orienteer_game/ • Site creates compass courses with any amount of sides or distances

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