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Orienteering

OBJECTIVES:

Psychomotor:

The students will be able to:

  • Navigate orienteering courses using map and compass skills

Cognitive:

The students will be able to:

  • Learn directionality
  • Use a compass correctly
  • Read a map (orient the map, thumb and track)
  • Find attack points on a map (reference points)
  • Navigate a Point to Point orienteering course, a Score Orienteering course
  • Read topography and understand how to use it as a reference point on a map
  • Answer quiz questions from other subject areas in order to complete an interdisciplinary point to point course.

Affective:

The students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate fair play and appropriate competitive behavior (e.g., cooperating with other teammates, demonstrating leadership, allowing all teammates to contribute, and preventing/resolving conflicts, complimenting/encouraging others).
  • Respect the different physical abilities of group members and incorporate that into strategy for completing the courses in the fastest time possible.