Teacher's Guide

Group activity days

**Plan for activity days in friluftsliv activity studies / physical education / nature studies / outdoor life**

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Plan for activity days in friluftsliv (the Norwegian tradition of unhurried, outdoor open-air living) activity studies / physical education / nature studies / outdoor life

Day 1: plan a day trip together with your group, with an overnight outdoors in the local area

Day 2: Carry out the planned trip

Day 3: Nature trail with map and food cooked over a campfire in groups

The aim of these days is to

  • plan, carry out and evaluate a trip
  • get the chance to sleep outdoors
  • work together as a group
  • show knowledge of first aid and life-saving skills in winter conditions
  • show skills in using a map
  • cook food over a campfire
  • reflect on experiences in nature
  • practise friluftsliv in a way that is gentle on nature
  • look after and use clothing and other equipment in a sensible way

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Assessment

After the trips you are to submit a digital story, on which you will receive written feedback, along with a level of attainment (low, medium, high).

You are to document the planning, the carrying out and the reflection afterwards on film and tell it in your own words, so that you can put your personal stamp on the submission. By making a film you practise conveying something to others, and you process what you have worked on once more.

This is what is to be in the film:

  1. What does nature mean to you? Try to convey this by using video, photo and voice together.
  2. How did you and your group plan and carry out the trip? Show how you planned and worked together. Show with film and photos how the trip and the plogging went. Answer the questions about plastic in nature. How was sleeping outdoors? What was the experience like?
  3. Show what you worked on at the different stations on the nature trail. Did you learn anything? Answer the questions by adding photos and video from the posts. Add voice and text if you like to describe more.

Day 1 (optionally one or two sessions of preparation): Planning the day trip, the overnight stay and food and campfire

The trip

  • Must be carried out in an area decided by the teacher
  • is to take place with everyone in the group
  • is to last about five hours
  • Mark it on the map, and write the distance too
  • Plan what equipment, food and clothes you need to bring
  • Remember to bring bags and gloves for picking up litter on the trip (see details below)

Campfire and food

  • Use the resource BÃ¥lfyring as a starting point. Everyone brings at least two logs each on day three, and one box of matches per group
  • Work out what you need to bring to get the campfire going. Do you need an axe or a knife?
  • Make some rules about lighting a campfire together as a group before you start.
  • Build a log cabin fire like the one in the film.
  • Cook simple food over a campfire. Feel free to use the resource Mat pÃ¥ tur as inspiration.

Sleeping outdoors (day 1 or day 2)

  • Sleep on the terrace, in the garden or a suitable area near where you live
  • If you have a hammock you can sleep in that if you like (it is important that you remember a sleeping mat)
  • If you have a tent you are welcome to pitch it in the garden or near where you live
  • You are welcome to arrange to sleep outdoors in groups

Day 2: carry out the planned trip. The teacher will drop in on the groups during the trip.

  • NB! During the trip you are to do the following:

Pick up litter on the trip. It can be a good idea to bring something to collect it in. Look at the litter, go through it and find the decomposition time. Use the overview of decomposition times for waste in Plast i naturen – plogging.

  • Of the litter the group has picked up, which has the longest and shortest decomposition time?
  • What consequences can it have for the local area, friluftsliv and the experience of nature if the litter is left lying about?
  • What does allemannsretten (the right to roam) say about litter in nature? (You are allowed to use your phone.)
  • Suggest a solution to the challenge of littering in nature that makes people motivated to take their litter home.

Day 3: Nature trail

Meet at ______________ at 9 a.m. (finished about 2 p.m.)

Posts to put up along the nature trail (the pupils do not get to see these in advance)

Post 1

Land art

Land art is an art form where you use what you find in nature and put it together into beautiful shapes and installations. What do you find in nature? What can you make from it? Be creative and use your imagination. Make a work of art from things you find in nature, either together as a group or on your own. Spend at least 15 minutes on it. Take a photo of it.

Post 2

Map and compass

Look at the maps placed at the post and discuss them in the group. Use both maps to answer the task.

  1. What does it mean that the scale is 1:50,000, 1:25,000, 1:100,000?
    • How many metres is this in reality?
    • What are green, blue and brown on the map?
    • What does a boulder look like on the map?
    • What does a path look like, and what does a road look like?
    • What does it mean that the contour interval is 20 metres?
  2. Orient the map using the compass, so that the map matches the terrain and the map is oriented to the north.
  3. Handrails are features on the map that are easy to follow in the terrain. Can you find more examples of handrails on the map?
  4. Show on the map where you walked to find the post. Notice and describe what features are present where the orienteering post is.

Post 3

The calm of the forest

Find a place for yourself under a tree or on a rock, or in another place you find pleasant. Sit there for at least 5 minutes. Use your senses, or just your thoughts. Set your mobile phone to silent or flight mode and put it away.

Post 4

Trees

Can you work out which type of tree is found in the local area by looking at a leaf?

Pick leaves and twigs from trees you see. Work out which type of tree it is; feel free to use an app or search engine on your phone to determine which species you have picked.

Do you know the difference between a deciduous tree and a conifer? Can you find examples of both? Take a photo of the leaves you find.

Post 5

Digital story

At this station you are to start on the video submission from the subject day. Download a video-editing app if you do not already have one on your phone. (Viva Video is free and can work well for this task.) You are to prepare to make a digital story, in which you include both photos and video from the subject day and add text, voice and music. Work out how you can insert video and photo and add text and voice.

Post 6

Cooling down and frostbite

  1. You are going on a mountain hike (fjelltur) with two good friends late in the autumn. Rain is forecast. How can you prepare for this trip to prevent cooling down and frostbite?
  2. Despite preparation, your friend gets wet through his jacket and cold on his upper body. He stands still, his teeth are chattering, his lips are blue and he becomes apathetic (unable to do anything). He also has white patches on his fingers. What do you do?

Source: Cathrine Dunker Furuly, NDLA (CC-BY-SA), adapted by Gina Wigestrand, Snu i tide https://ndla.no/nn/subject:26/topic:049b2503-a8d2-44db-ae7c-b7124152f25a/resource:360e4821-92ce-4e69-a52c-a566a75ccd3d?filters=urn:filter:ca607ca1-4dd0-4bbd-954f-67461f4b96fc

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