AEE Heartland 2023

Welcome to the AEE Heartland 2023 Navigation Games page! The workshop was presented by Barb Bryant (Navigation Games and Orienteering USA).

From here you will find resources to get you started on incorporating orienteering into your programs.

First, feel free to use the menu to look around this site for useful information. We also refer you to the Navigation Games website, and that of Orienteering USA and the International Orienteering Federation.

Key links:

• To find orienteering events around the country, visit https://orienteeringusa.org/events/ or https://attackpoint.org/events.jsp 

• Our activities for today

• Slides from today's presentation

• Rich Parker's Introduction to Orienteering

• Navigation Games Lesson Plans

Also:

• The Sunita Williams orienteering map (example of site-specific maps)

• How to make a map of your school or nearby park

• Printed and laminated materials (non-site-specific materials: animal clue sheets, geometric maps, etc.)

• How to teach with and without electronic timing

• The family fun night - bringing the family into orienteering!

• A workshop for the entire school staff - an introductory video for all 100 staff members (not just teachers!) at the school who participated in a team-building orienteering workshop. Our goal was to raise awareness about orienteering and set the teachers with ideas for how to use the map of the school grounds in creative ways.

• The Needham PE teacher applied for a grant from his town's educational foundation, for equipment, materials preparation, lesson planning and support from Navigation Games. Take a look at our application and feel free to emulate it to obtain grants for your orienteering unit. Having said that - orienteering can be super cheap! You can use materials that you already have; the most important thing for grades 3 and up is making a map.