The Navigation Games Curriculum Is Now Online

For years, our orienteering curriculum lived in a smattering of documents, websites, and the heads of the people who taught it. Now we've built a public, searchable curriculum site that brings together our school lesson plans, camp programs, and activity library in one place, and we wanted you to be among the first to see it.

Take a look!

What's there

Structured lesson plans for schools. Sequenced progressions for grades K-2, 3-5, and 6+, each aligned to SHAPE America PE standards. Every lesson is written so a teacher can read it once and know exactly what to do that day, with links out to activity pages for anyone who wants more depth or background.

Two programs for camps. An Introductory Curriculum for camps just getting started, and a six-session Skill Development Curriculum that builds real map and compass skills over two weeks, culminating in an all-camp treasure hunt.

A full activity library. Twenty+ activities, from Boundary Run and Animal-O to Score-O and Vampire-O, each with setup instructions, step-by-step delivery, and vocabulary written in plain language, not orienteering jargon. Every activity page also renders as a one-page printable summary, so a teacher or counselor can grab exactly what they need before heading outside.

None of it requires electronic timing equipment. Every lesson works with nothing more than a map, some checkpoints, and a group of kids. SI timing is documented separately, for programs that have it and want to use it.

A 24/7 lesson planning Advisor. Type in your participants' ages, space, and how many sessions you have, and get a personalized recommendation grounded in the actual curriculum, not a generic chatbot guessing at orienteering.

Why now

This is a first public look. The core structure is in place and usable today, and we're actively filling gaps: more photos and diagrams, camp lesson plans getting their first full editing pass, video scripts in progress. We'd rather put it in front of you now and keep improving it in the open than wait for something that's never quite done.

What we'd love from you

Use it. Click around, try planning a lesson with the Advisor, print an activity one-pager. Every page has a quick feedback widget at the bottom, and we read every submission. If something's confusing, missing, or just wrong, that's exactly the kind of thing that helps us prioritize what to fix next.

Share it! Let's help more educators to bring kids outside to practice problem-solving on the move, and build confidence and spatial reasoning skills!

Thanks for being part of building this. More to come.