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🏃 8th Grade · PES2.M10Unit 4: Lifetime & outdoor activities

Orienteering

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🎯 Objective: Students navigate a course with a map and compass.

Lesson outline

  1. Map skills.
  2. Course.
  3. Reflect.
  4. Exit: one skill.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

S2.M10

SHAPE America National PE Standards (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Try lifetime activities
  • Explain the benefits of regular activity

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🗺️ Scavenger hunt maker⏲️ Stopwatch👥 Team generator⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Lifetime & outdoor activities”

  1. Orienteering
  2. Yoga and flexibility
  3. Benefits of activity

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