Orienteering at school for ages 13-15, Chapter 18: ORIENTEERING INDOOR, TWO FLOORS

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ORIENTEERING INDOOR, TWO FLOORS

 

The example below is an ambitious way to implement indoor orienteering. If you have the opportunity to use a larger venue or building in many levels it will be very fun. It doesn’t need to be a sports facility like this one, it could very well be a school with several floors.


The numbers of equipment e.g. vaulting box, benches, springboard, mattress etc. decides how an area can be used for indoor orienteering. It is similar to carry out the “shipwreck” but this is with the map, and the controls can be hung high and low. Now you have started to be creative with both yourself and the students. Kids are full of imagination, and the ability the kids produce should take advantage of by us adults as much as we can.

 


My starting point is that all equipment, fixed or loosed, should be used and gladly combined. At the same time students focus on “to navigate in a correct manner” I would like to get coordination and balance as an important part of the exercise in this activity.


The master map consists of all lines (handball, basketball, badminton, etc) and this map you can use for line orienteering and as a support for you to put out all gymnastic equipment. The map, which is then used for the various activities, have no lines, only the equipment are marked. You have built a “terrain box” indoor and then it’s these tools you are using for orienteering. The equipment correspond to stones, hills, buildings, lakes to a “real map”.

From the second floor you can see the equipment on first floor and therefore the map is drawn with a transparent layer.

 

      

 

         

 

 

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