PE - Orienteering

• It is an outdoor navigational recreational activity using specially drawn and detailed maps.

  Orienteering
• It requires navigational skills to navigate from point to point normally moving at a speed.

  Orienteering
• Benefits of Orienteering

  Conceptual aspects

  Physical Aspect

  Personal aspects

  Social Aspects

  Environmental aspects
• What is the fundamental skill in orienteering?

  Orientating the map or setting the map.
• It is a picture or representation of the earth's surface.

  The Map
• It includes a compass rose that shows directions.

  The Map
• These are the four base parts on a compass.

  Cardinal directions
• This is the north

  Top point
• This is the south

  The point at the bottom
• These are called east and west

  Side points
• These are called intermediate directions which include northwest, northeast, southwest and southeast.

  The points in between the Cardinal directions
• The points in between the cardinal directions includes?

  Northwest

  Northeast

  Southwest

  Southeast
• Maps use a__ or__ to explain the meaning of the symbols used in the map.

  Key or Legend
• It usually shows a small picture of each of the symbols used on the map, along with a written description of the meaning of each symbol.

  The key
• The golden rule of Orienteering

  Only go as fast as you can read the map

  : know where you are ( map-reading skills )

  : know where you are going ( route-choice skills )
• It is an invaluable tool that every bsckpacker should know how to use.

  Compass
• It is a magnetized needle floating in a liquid and responding to the Earth's magnetic field consequently revealing directions.

  Compass
• It is used to measure bearings and to pinpoint locations.

  Compass
• The magnetic needles north end is painted red and its south end is white.

  Magnetic needle
• Compass parts

  Magnetic needle

  Revolving compass housing

  Transparent base plate
• Magnetic needle: the north end is painted? And the south end?

  Red

  White
• The housing is marked with with the four Cardinal points of?

  North

  East

  South

  West
• This part is marked with an orienting arrow snd meridian lines.

  The bottom of the rotating housing
• The base plate is marked with a____, an___ ___ as well as the____ _ ____ ____.

  Ruler

  An index line

  Direction of travel arrow
• It refers to the direction from one spot to another measured in degrees from the reference line of north

  Bearing