How to Use This Site

This site contains orienteering curricula for schools and camps. Here is how the content is organized and how to get the most out of it.

The site at a glance

• 🏠 Home — pick your path
  • 🚀 Quick Start — try an activity today
  • 💬 Lesson Plan Advisor — AI help planning lessons for your group
• 📋 Lesson Plans — complete class sessions, built from activities
  • 🏫 Teach at a School — K-2, 3-5, 6+
  • ⛺ Orienteering at Camp — Intro (3 sessions), Skill Development (6 sessions)
• 🎯 Activities — the building blocks: one page per game, from Boundary Run to Point-to-Point
• 📚 Reference
  • Activities & Lesson Plans table — everything at a glance
  • Glossary — every term defined
  • Equipment & Materials — maps, checkpoints, kits, setup guides
  • Frameworks — the Navigation Games Progression, PE standards, OUSA skill levels, SEL
  • Adapting for All Learners — inclusion adaptations
  • Resources — videos and outside links
• ℹ️ About — About Orienteering, How to Use This Site, Our Impact, acknowledgments, copyright

Two types of content

The curricula have two main types of pages.

Lesson Plans

A lesson plan is a complete class period. It includes timing, a sequence of activities, reflection questions, and extensions. Lesson plans tell you what to do and when.

Lesson plans reference activities by name. Click any activity card on a lesson plan page to see a quick summary, or follow the link to the full activity details.

Find lesson plans under Lesson Plans in the top navigation.

Activities

An activity is one reusable thing you do. It describes setup, steps, progression, vocabulary, and learning goals. Activities are building blocks that can appear in multiple lesson plans.

Activities do NOT include timing, transitions between activities, or reflection questions. That context comes from the lesson plan.

Find activities under Activities in the top navigation.

How they connect

Lesson plans are built from activities. A single lesson plan might use three or four activities in sequence (warm-up, core activity, extension). The same activity can appear in different lesson plans.

When you see an activity card on a lesson plan page, click it to see the full activity with setup details, step-by-step instructions, and vocabulary.

Views

Each activity and lesson plan page has two views:

• Full view (default): complete content with all sections, tabs, and details
• One-pager: a compact, printable summary with just the essentials. Click the "One-pager" button at the top of any page to switch. Print it to take into the field.

Materials

Materials are hyperlinked. Click any material name to see a popup with details: what it is, where to get it, alternatives, and which activities use it. For the full list, visit the Materials Index.

Navigation tips

• Top navigation bar: jump between Activities, Lesson Plans, Equipment, and Reference sections
• Sidebar: browse within a section. Lesson plans are organized by grade band (K-2, 3-5, 6+) and by camp programs
• Breadcrumbs: see where you are and navigate back up
• "On this page" menu: jump to sections within the current page (on mobile, tap the dropdown at the top)

For teachers

Start with the grade band overview that matches your students. Each grade band has a learning progression table showing what each lesson adds and the main activity. The lessons are written with PE classes in mind, but classroom, STEM, and geography teachers can run them as written; the map reading, spatial reasoning, and measurement connections are built in.

For PE departments and administrators: lesson plans include SHAPE America PE standards alignment. Look in the Goals section of each lesson plan.

For camp directors

Start with the Camp section for intro activities and multi-session skill development programs.

Printing

Use the Print button on any page to get a clean printout. The One-pager view is designed for field use and prints on a single page.