The Missing Knowledge Fix: 5 Quick Steps to Get Your K - 12 Students Moving, Thinking, and Problem-Solving—While Developing Map Navigation Skills (Even If You Rely on Your Phone to Go Everywhere)

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quick background on Navigation Games, what you are going to learn, how it will benefit your students and yourself

Step 1: Why Map Navigation

1. for every developmental level
2. keep them moving
3. provide student agency (from NavGame resources page)
4. map navigation is universally needed skill at all ages (moving between classes, going through a store, walking home from school, driving somewhere) but is not taught in school
5. chance for less athletically focused students to shine
6. benefits for your brain
7. builds practice - having a goal, planning a route, recovering from errors - meta to life

Step 2: What is Orienteering

sport, debunk compass bearing w/o consideration of route

1. boundaries - treasure hunt (what is a map)
2. targets (controls) - could be different sports equipment
3. how it relates to PE standards
4. Why people love it