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ORIENTEERING

ITALY SECONDARY SCHOOL Ripa Teatina and Torrevecchia Teatina. HEALTHY BODY. ORIENTEERING. What is orienteering?. It’s a competitive sport that originated as a military exercise in Scandinavia in the early 1900’s.

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ORIENTEERING

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  1. ITALY SECONDARY SCHOOL Ripa Teatina and Torrevecchia Teatina HEALTHY BODY ORIENTEERING

  2. What is orienteering? It’s a competitive sport that originated as a military exercise in Scandinavia in the early 1900’s. 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 motivating recreational activity which • promotes environmental awareness, • develops critical thinking skills • increases physical fitness

  3. (Secondary School - Torrevecchia Teatina) …and the lessons starts

  4. …students learn by doing! Orienteering is a good way to teach students map skills and can be integrated with units on geography, maths and science. (Secondary School – Ripa Teatina)

  5. students learn how to… • 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

  6. whatdoes a map look like? The MAPis a verydetailedrepresentationof a sectionof a town/park/woods (itdepends on where the competitionistakingplace). Studentsmustreadmapsymbols (fountains, walls, parks, streams, trails, hills, depressions, rocks, etc. ). Eachelementismapped in greatdetail and veryaccuratelylocated.

  7. 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!!!!

  8. Go? Go where? 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. But, the realfun and challenge of orienteering is in the routechoice. “Do I take the long way around on a mainstreet or do I cut straightthrough the parkdirectlyto the control? Do I go up and overthathugehill or go aroundit?...” The choices are endless!

  9. Starts are staggered and the group of students successfully completing the course in the least amount of time is the winner! Anyway… the goal of orienteering is to complete a course in point-to-point order.

  10. A CONTROL FLAG or a PAPER LANTERN marks the location that the students must visit.

  11. 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.

  12. This sport encourages decision-making, and builds up map reading and navigational skills, which may prove Useful in other areas of life. Essentially, it is a healthy exercise for the brain as well as body.

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

  14. Here we are!

  15. Project: HEALTHY LIFE FOR A HEALTHY WORLD Section: HEALTHY BODY Schools: SECONDARY SCHOOL (classes IIA and IIB) – Ripa Teatina – Italy SECONDARY SCHOOL (class IIA) – Torrevecchia Teatina– Italy Teachersinvolved: Giancaterino A. Marrone S. CotumaccioM.A. Environmentalexperts: IL GRANDE FAGGIO – Pretoro – Italy Thankstoourenvironmentalexperts Fabrizio and Luca forhelpingus tochoose the best possible way!

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