HEALTHY BODY

What is orienteering?It’s an outdoor activity where the participants navigate from one point to another point to find the features (the sites) indicated on the map

It’s a competitive sport that originated as a military exercise in Scandinavia in the early 1900’s.

It’s a motivating recreational activity which promotes environmental awareness, develops critical thinking skills increases physical fitness

…and the lessons starts

(Secondary School - Torrevecchia Teatina)

…students learn by doing!

(Secondary School – Ripa Teatina)

Orienteering is a good way to teach students map skillsand can be integrated with units on geography, maths and science.

use a compass, goniometers, rulers and squares

follow a map to a specific location

follow written directions to a specific location

“read” a map and interpretate its simbols and function

students learn how to…

The MAP is a very detailed representation of a section of a town/park/woods (it depends on where the competition is taking place). Students must read map symbols (fountains, walls, parks, streams, trails, hills, depressions, rocks, etc. ).Each element is mapped in great detail and very accurately located.

what does a map look like?

At the START each group of

students is given a map

and assigned a start time. They can’t look at the

map until their time is called.

When their time is

announced they do the following

steps:

Turn the map over Look for the start triangle Orient the map to their direction of

travel using a compass Figure out how they're going to get

from the start triangle to control #1 then… GO!!!!

Go? Go where?

But, the real fun and challenge of orienteering

is in the route choice.

“Do I take the long way around on a main street or do I

cut straight through the park directly to the control?

Do I go up and over that huge hill or go around it?...”

The choices are endless!

The aim is to navigate in sequence between control points, marked out on the orienteering map, in the

quickest possible time.

Students can plan to walk around the course but many choose to jog or run.

Anyway… the goal of orienteering is to complete a

course in point-to-point order.

Starts are staggered and the group of students successfully completing the course in the least amount of time is the winner!

A CONTROL FLAG

or a PAPER LANTERN marks the location that the students

must visit.

To verify a visit, students use a punch hanging next to the flag

to mark their control card. Different punches make different

patterns of holes in the paper.

Essentially, it is a

healthy exercise for the brain

as well as body.

This sport encourages

decision-making, and builds upmap reading

and navigational skills, which may prove

Useful in other areas of life.

…at the end of the course… the environmental expert checks the time. Who’s the winner?

we are!

Here

Project: HEALTHY LIFE FOR A HEALTHY WORLDSection: HEALTHY BODY

Schools: SECONDARY SCHOOL (classes IIA and IIB) – Ripa Teatina – Italy SECONDARY SCHOOL (class IIA) – Torrevecchia Teatina– Italy

Teachers involved: Giancaterino A. Marrone S. Cotumaccio M.A.

Environmental experts: IL GRANDE FAGGIO – Pretoro – Italy

Thanks to our environmental experts Fabrizio and Luca for helping us to choose the best possible way!