Orienteering
Orienteering is a family of sports that requires individuals to use navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate to a number of control points in a diverse and usually unfamiliar territory. Orienteering doesn't always happen on foot. Other orienteering options include mountain biking orienteering, ski orienteering, and trail orienteering. Being involved in orienteering allows students to become one with nature, develop respect for nature and all that it has to offer, and challenges students both mentally and physically. Lessons in orienteering are idea for physical education classes because it is a relatively low-cost activity and easily resourced, only requiring a compass and map.
Another popular orienteering-type activity that can be used in physical education classes is the popularity-growing sport of geocaching. Geocaching involves individuals to use a global position system (GPS) device to hide and seek container, called "geocaches". These containers contain a pencil and log book (where students write their name and date), and a toy or small trinket used for trading. While finding the space needed for orienteering and geocaching may be difficult in some schools, both activities allow for variation in the typical physical education class.
For more info go to http://orienteering.org/
Another popular orienteering-type activity that can be used in physical education classes is the popularity-growing sport of geocaching. Geocaching involves individuals to use a global position system (GPS) device to hide and seek container, called "geocaches". These containers contain a pencil and log book (where students write their name and date), and a toy or small trinket used for trading. While finding the space needed for orienteering and geocaching may be difficult in some schools, both activities allow for variation in the typical physical education class.
For more info go to http://orienteering.org/
