Navigation/Orienteering Activities

In The Classroom

  1. Find the scale of the map.
  2. Identify symbols on the map: boundary, power line, church, cemetery, building, trail, trail junction, road, dirt road, bridge, benchmark.
  3. Identify geographic features on the map: hilltop, spur, reentrant, creek junction, saddle, ridge, depression, cliff.
  4. Identify U’s and V’s.
  5. Match up topo lines to 3D pictures.
  6. Get elevation change from one point to another.
  7. Measure distance on the map.
  8. Read declination and set compass.
  9. Get a bearing from the map.
  10. Plot a bearing on the map.
  11. Plot a course with and without using declination and note the difference.
  12. Triangulate your position from two bearings.
  13. UTM: Make a plotting tool.
  14. UTM: Plot a UTM.
  15. Orienteering: Identify a backstop.
  16. Orienteering: Identify a handrail.

In The Forest

  1. Set compass declination.
  2. Orient the map to the world.
  3. Pace count out a distance.
  4. Practice thumbing on the map.
  5. Determine and follow a route between two points.
  6. Follow a bearing and find a control.
  7. Use an attack point and find a control.
  8. Use aiming off to find a control.
  9. Use a handrail to find a control.
  10. Silhouette a hill at night.
  11. Triangulate from two bearings.