Re: Compass Game
Robert W. Myers (focus@FUSE.NET)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:52:41 -0500
Attach a piece of iron plyrite!
YiS,
Bob
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From: Scouts-L Youth Group List [mailto:Scouts-L@LISTSERV.TCU.EDU] On Behalf
Of Mark Arend
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 4:26 PM
To: SCOUTS-L@LISTSERV.TCU.EDU
Subject: Re: Compass Game
Not a game but an idea...
For about 5 years I worked with some of the 6th grades in town on
orienteering. After the first couple of times I realized that I would have
to come up with a better way to show the parts of a compass, how it works,
etc.
I took some left-over plywood and made a very large compass; the base was
about 2 x 4 feet and the circular compass housing about 20" in diameter.
Was a fantastic training tool for showing a group the parts of a compass &
how it works. I ended up loaning it out several times for District
activities & I think the WB staff even borrowed it once or twice.
Unfortunately I never did figure out how to magnitize that plywood needle
:-(
Mark W. Arend
Beaver Dam Community Library
311 N. Spring St. Outside of a dog, a book is
Beaver Dam, Wisc. 53916 man's best friend. Inside of
(920) 887-4631 (fax 887-4633) a dog it's too dark to read.
--Groucho Marx
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