Generalized Progressions

A progression is a sequence of lessons. A lesson is a sequence of activities that focus on one or more skills. A simple introductory progression might look like this:

1. Safety and boundary: Boundary Run and Gathering

2. Exploration: Explore and Find; extra activity: draw a map or picture of the area

3. Clue sheets: Animal-O; extra activity: draw a map showing the location of one animal; can a friend interpret the map and name the correct animal?

4. Communicating location: Clothespin-O

5. Keeping a map oriented: Geometric-O, Maze and Grid-O

6. Map Symbols: Symbol-O, Score-O, Poison Score-O

7. The sport of orienteering: Traditional races with leader board

Our generic progressions:

• Elementary: Preschool through Grade 2 - TBD

• Middle: Grades 3-5 - TBD

• Upper: Grades 6-12 - TBD

• Summer Camp Progression

For NG staff: source material:

• Gitbook - To see this version, please click here!