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Class Description:
Students who are familiar with a map and compass will enjoy the additional challenge provided in the Competitive Orienteering outdoor recreation class. Compass skills will be reviewed/learned. Topographical map reading will be introduced. Students will be shown how to use the map and compass together. The class will then travel to the start of a competitive orienteering course. After safety instructions are given, students will apply their newly acquired skills to locate off-trail control points.
Total time: 3 hours (two hours outdoors)
Audience: 6-20 students, 4th grade through adult
Activity level: strenuous
Travel: 1 1/4 mile
Total uphill travel: 320 feet
Outcomes
Upon completion of the Competitive Orienteering class students will be able to:
- Orient a topographical map using a compass or land formations.
- Take a bearing from a map.
- Interpret the terrain on a topographical map between two points and determine the best path of travel.
- Travel to a control point and return to the starting point at the end of class.
- Relate a natural history highlight experienced while off-trail.
Minnesota Graduation Standards
The Competitive Orienteering class will provide students with guided practice, in an authentic setting, to support the following Graduations Standards. We have chosen one to three “major focus” standards per grade level. Due to the holistic nature of environmental education, several other standards, not listed here, are addressed as well.
Task Management Skills: Teamwork, Perseverance, Resource Management, Time Management
• 6-8th Mathematics: Space, Shape, Measurement (5)
• 6-8th Decision making: Physical Education and Fitness (1,6,7)
• 4-5th Decision making: Physical Education and Fitness (1,4,5)
• 4-5th Mathematics: Space, Shape, Measurement (1,2,5,6,8)
Wolf Ridge Curriculum Concepts
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