Manitoba Orienteering Association

Teaching Orienteering Skills

CURRICULUM OUTLINE

(December 2012)

Suggested Skill Progression

  1. Introduction to Orienteering Overview
     - The Objective
     - The Orienteering Course
     - Vocabulary and terms
        - Map
        - Start/Finish
        - Control Descriptions
        - Controls
        - Control Markers
        - Control Codes
        - Route Choice
        - Punching
        - Control Card
     - Safety
     - Rules of Orienteering
     - Equipment

  2. Maps and Map Reading
     - Magnetic North
     - Map Scale
     - Map Legend
        - Map Colours
        - Map Symbols
        - Contour Lines
        - Control Features

  3. Basic Skills
     - Orient the Map to the terrain
     - Folding and Thumbing the map
     - Basic Map Reading
     - Navigating along a linear feature
     - Relocating

  4. The Compass
     - Components of the Compass
     - How to Use a Compass
        - Orient the map with a compass
     - Taking a Compass Bearing

  5. The Orienteering Event
     - Meet Procedures
     - The Course
     - Post Event