Mapping & Orienteering Classes
Have you ever wanted to know how to use a compass? Can you look at terrain and draw a map? Do you love exploring nature?
This class teaches participants how to think visually and translate land to map and vice versa. We make compasses, practice compass skills, and learn about the elusive concepts of declination and solar noon!
We also introduce participants to the pursuit of geocaching and will seek (and hopefully find) a geocache hidden in the Nature Preserve.
Above all, this class explores the Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve, an intown natural gem alongside South Peachtree Creek. We visit several ecological zones—marsh, creek, pine and hardwood forests, on the lookout for animals and plants. The class is held at the Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve near the North Dekalb Mall.
