Frameworks
The Navigation Games curriculum draws on orienteering-specific frameworks from OUSA and our own progression, as well as broader educational frameworks.
Orienteering Frameworks
- Orienteering Development Model - OUSA's five-stage framework for developing orienteers, based on the TeamUSA American Development Model
- OUSA Skill Level Recognition Program - OUSA's four-level progression of concrete orienteering skills, from Basic through Expert
- Navigation Games Progression - Our ordered sequence of 48 orienteering concepts and skills, cross-referenced to the ODM and OUSA Skill Levels
Education and Ethics Frameworks
- PE Standards - Alignment with the 2024 SHAPE America National Physical Education Standards
- Experiential Learning - Learning by doing: the cycle of experience, reflection, and application
- Social-Emotional Learning - How orienteering develops independence, resilience, collaboration, and other SEL competencies (CASEL framework)
- SEL Program Quality Assessment - Mapping the curriculum to the Forum for Youth Investment's SEL PQA observation rubric, used by ACA and other program evaluators
- Leave No Trace - Outdoor ethics and orienteering's relationship to trail use