Ottawa Orienteering Club - Teacher's Page

This page is designed to give teachers in the Ottawa and Gatineau area some direction on where to find resources on the web or where to purchase material

For personal competency, we recommend you join us, for our yearly beginners' clinic, and then for local meets. Let us know you are learning the skill for teaching purposes and we can talk further at the meet and give you further pointers.

If you are setting up a school meet, we do lend out our equipment when it is available. Please contact our equipment manager

We might also recommend a local supplier of Orienteering equipment. He carries everything you would need for your own set of equipment.

The author of this page is not a teacher, nor an orienteering coach. I have read most of the on-line material and as an orienteer feel it is on track but I have not read the books or manuals suggested. If teachers in the area wish to recommend one or another source I can certainly pass on that information.

The following links provide ideas for games, projects, teaching techniques, map making of the local park or school yard.

• http://www.nzorienteering.com/coaching/kiwisport_manual/KiwiSport%20Orienteering%20Coaching%20Manual.pdf

  New Zealand instructional manual for teaching orienteering for children grades 6-10. Ideas are given for map making, games - both classroom and field exercises, They relate these to other disciplines such as math. It explains how to make a map of your school yard using the school plans and OCAD software. It will give you ideas for making of equipment inexpensively and gives ideas for involving children with physical disabilities, sight limimtations or conceptual limitations.

• http://www.scool.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=73

  This is the teachers page from the Swiss Orienteering Federaton site in Switzerland. It is in German, Italian and French so I have given the link to the french page. Explore the site and, if you understand french better than I do, you might find additional help.

• http://www.orienteer.ab.ca/Schools/teachers.htm

  As I understand it, the Edmonton school board has commissioned the Edmonton Overlanders Orienteering club to prepare a full course and provide other services. Their manual may be available for purchase and the concept may be of interest to Ottawa boards. If so we could discuss this.

• http://www.us.orienteering.org/teach_o.html

  A list of books which teach orienteering and associated skills for the teacher, the recreation leader and for individuals to improve their orienteering understanding and skills.

• http://www.orienteering.asn.au/promotion/devel/develcoach/

  Some excellent coaching and teaching exercises. Please note the copyright statements and contact Orienteering Australia for material.

• http://www.williams.edu/Biology/Faculty_Staff/hwilliams/Orienteering/teachingo.html

  This site gives further recommendations for books on orienteering courses.

• http://www.orienteering.ca/pdfs/YesMagazine_Orienteering.pdf

  A two page, comic-style story published by Yes Magazineabout orienteering which won an award from the Association of Educational Publishers in the US

If you have computer access on a rainy day you may want to have your students try some of the games from
http://www.geocities.com/haywoodkb/o-game.html

or

http://web.ift.uib.no/~jankoc/worldofo/Software/Games/