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Lesson Plan Title:
Snowshoe Orienteering |
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7-9 |
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Functional Fitness |
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Communication |
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Fair Play |
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Leadership |
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Team Work |
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Effort |
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Safety |
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Goal Setting/Personal Challenge |
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Active Living In The Community |
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Snowshoes were invented by Aboriginal people in North America and were used in the winter months, primarily for hunting and trapping, or gathering firewood. This activity could stimulate one of the trips a hunter might make.
Warm up
Have the students run a few easy laps around the school field to get their hearts going. Then do a short stretching activity with them. Explain the purpose of today's activity and how it was done by many Aboriginal people and why.
Body
Divide the class into about 3 to 5 groups and assign each group a number. Now give each student a map of the schoolyard revealing about 6-8 different checkpoints. Before looking at the map, groups must decide which checkpoint each memeber will start at since no two group members may begin at the same checkpoint. Now explain that from that checkpoint, each person must find the quickest way to cover all of the other checkpoints. At each checkpoint the students will find the number of their group and an accompanying letter. They must write that letter down and proceed to the next checkpoint. When all of the letters have been collected they are to return to the start and a time will be recorded for them. While out on the course they are to pretend that they are in the wilderness and imagine what it is like to be alone. Therefore, if they run into another person, and they will, they must pretend that the person does not exist and just carry on. Give a start signal for all the students to begin and start the clock as well.
Culminating activity
When all the students are back and a time has been recorded, initiate a debrief session with the class, in the gym. Give all of the students the key to help them unscramble the letters they found on the course, to reveal what they were after while out there. If there were 7 checkpoints you need to have 7 answers. They could be: beaver, moose, otter, muskrat, buffalo, etc. Any answer that has less than 7 letters will have been given extra letters, just to throw the students off. Now ask the questions such as the following, but don't be limited to them. Why would time be a factor out in the wilderness? How did it feel to not acknowledge anyone, even though you knew people were right there? How do you think it would differ from actually being out in the wilderness? What was it like to do the entire course on snowshoes? Are there any issues of safety that you can think of while out there? Would you make snowshoeing an activity you might try at some time later in your life? (the rest are up to you.)
Assessment strategies
Self-assessment. Have an open-ended questionaire prepared ahead of time, containing many of the questions you have just debriefed with the class. Have them fill in the answers. |
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Equipment:
One pair of snowshoes for each student.
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