Scale and distance
Physical Education · Grade 11 · about 40 minutes
Use the map scale to find real distances on the ground.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Orienteering: the outdoor activity
- Map symbols
- Relating symbols to the ground
- Scale and distance
- Contours and landform
- Setting the map and north
- Handrails and features
- Planning a route
- Control points and the course
- Drawing a school orienteering map
- Planning and executing within time
- Life skills, conservation and feedback