Orienteering – Race in nature

Orienteering is a fun sport where fitness, map reading skills and clever thinking all plays a part in who can get around a course in the fastest time. Orienteering can be a fun way to explore your school grounds and move through nature, it can also be competitive with time being a motivation.

Orienteering activity card (PDF, 849K)

Students will need

• Map of school grounds (or create your own as a separate activity)
• Orienteering controls/markers (or create your own class set)

Activity

• Provide (or create) a map of your school grounds. Clearly identify the boundaries for this activity.
• Provide a list of locations for students to include as their orienteering controls, for others to find. 
  • A native tree, an exotic tree, a nice place to sit in the sun, a quiet place, a noisy place, a place where the wind blows litter, a place where insects like to live, a tree that birds visit often, etc.
• Take a walk outside and encourage students to explore locations suitable to place an orienteering control/marker, for others to find. Keep your ideas secret!
  • Students mark on their map where to put their controls.
  • They could also write clues that can be used instead of controls.
• Teachers to select maps to be set out. You could also take time to explore all the courses.
  • Courses can be completed individually, in pairs or groups of three. 
  • Set students off at intervals if you are wanting to use time as a motivation. 
  • Stagger where students start on the course to avoid ‘tail gating’.

Extension ideas

Students create your own map of the school grounds

• Add landmarks to your map to add interest and accuracy to your map:
  • Large trees, sheds, fences, playground, seats, gardens.
  • Categorise common landmarks with a symbol and add a key to the map.

Create your class set of orienteering controls

• Traditional orienteering controls are a square flag with a diagonal of orange and white. For this activity they could be:
  • Fabric flags or cards, painted rocks or specific items to locate.
  • Make sure you number or code each control so students prove they have located the control.

Measure your distances/times

• Estimate distance and use measuring tools to determine the distances between each control point.
• • Who in the class had the longest course? Shortest course?  Mean, medium, mode etc. 
  • What was the fastest times, average time etc. 

Other resources

School resources – Orienteering NZ website

Awhi ararau – Reihi taioa

He hākinakina pārekareka te awhe ararau, he pūkena pānui mahere, whakaaro koi kia panuku ai, kia wawe ai te huri i te ara. He pai te awhe ararau e mātirotiro ai ngā ākonga i ngā taiao o te kura. Ka puta hoki ngā āhuatanga whakataetae hoki.

Awhe ararau (PDF, 843K)

Me whai rauemi

• Mahere ā-kura ( hangaia tētahi hei ngohe rerekē).
• Mana whakahaere awhe ararau (hangaia rānei i ētahi).

Ngohe

• Whakarato, hanga rānei he mahere o te taiao o te kura. Kia mārama te kite i ngā rohe whenua mō tēnei ngohe.
• Whakarato he rārangi o ngā wāhi hei whakauru awhe ararau e ngā tauira, mā ētahi atu hei kimi.
  • He rākau motuhake, rākau tāwāhi, he wāhi pai hei noho ki te rā, he wāhi ngū, he wāhi hoihoi, he wāhi e pupuhi ai te hau, he wāhi pai e noho ai ngā ngārara, he rākau ka tūtaki e ngā manu.
• Haere ki waho ka tūhuratia ngā taiao o waho, he wāhi pai mō te awhe ararau, hei kimikimi mā tētahi.
  • Ka tohu ngā ākonga ki runga mahere kīhea tū ai te mana whakahaere.
  • Ka tuhia hoki he kupu hunga ki te kore he mana whakahaere.
• Mā te kaiako ngā mahere e tohu (ka whai wā ki te tūhura i ngā ara) kia maheretia.
  • E taea te whakatutuki i ngā ara, takitahi, takirua, takimaha rānei.
  • Whakawehewehetia ngā wā a ia roopu, mā te wā e whakakipakipa.
  • Whakawehewehe i ngā wāhi e tīmata ai ia roopu kia kore e tukituki.

Toronga whakamua

Mā ngā tauira e hanga mahere o te kura

• Whakauru i ngā tohu whenua ki te mahere, e whai paanga ana, e tika ana te mahere.
  • Rākau nui, hēte, taiapa, papa tākaro, tūru, māra hoki.
  • Kāwaitia ngā tohu whenua mē ētahi tohu, ka tāpirihia he tūtohi tohu ki te mahere hei tautuoko.

Hangaia he awhe ararau mā tōu akomanga me ngā mana whakahaere.

• Ko ngā tūmomo awhe ararau tukuiho hei haki tapawhā, kua haurokihia te haki ki ngā tae karaka me te mā. Mō tēnei ngohe he;
  • Haki papanga, kāri, kōhatu kua peitatia.  Taputapu rerekē rānei hei kimi.
  • Tuhia he nama ki ia mana whakahaere kia pono ai ngā tauira i tika te kimi i te wāhi o taua mana whakahaere.

Ine i te tawhiti/wā

• Whakatau tata i te tawhiti, whakamahia he taputapu ine e kite ai te tawhiti o ia mana whakahaere.
  • O ngā tauira o tōu akomanga i a wai te ara roa? Te ara poto? Toki, waenganui rānei?
  • He aha te wā tere rawa, āhua tere anō hoki?

Rauemi kē atu

School resources – Orienteering NZ website