Activities

Each activity can be a stand alone exercise used within curriculum lessons or an after school club or used together to provide the basis for a festival of introductory orienteering and appropriate multi skills stations.

These activities are designed to enable the teaching of basic orienteering skills and associated physical skills in a fun and exciting manner. Resources required to run the activities and organize a festival are included in this pack, no specialized equipment is needed to run the activities.

The activities provide plenty of opportunities to encourage teamwork and co-operation.

In each activity page you will find:

• Ages: indication of the best age spam of the target group

• Location: suitable place where the activity should be taken

• Duration: typical length of the activity

• Aim: goal of the activity

• Description: overall idea about the activity

• Equipment: the material that is needed

• Preparation: how to prepare the material (especially the map)

• Implementation: step by step explanation

• Tips and variations: Tips and progression proposal for activity variations

List of activities:

List of orienteering games and applications that you can find online:

• 3DRerun (analysis) www.3drerun.worldofo.com

• CatchingFeatures (game) www.catchingfeatures.com

• Control (analysis) www.control-app.net

• GPSSeuranta (analysis) www.gpsseuranta.net/eindex.php

• QuickRoute (analysis) www.matstroeng.se/quickroute/en

• Rasor lite (game) www.pejla.se/rasor/rasor1_75.swf

• RouteGadget (analysis) www.routegadget.net

• Ski-O Map Memory (training) www.catchingfeatures.com/b/skiomapmemory.html

• Virtual-O (game) www.virtualo.org