Spring-O Orienteering Merit Badge Plan here This plan includes links to download the visual aids and other teaching suggestions. This is free to use; we would appreciate hearing if you found it useful.
Orienteering Merit Badge (worksheet)
MBC Instruction Help: download the Mertit Badge Plan at the link above. Below are some direct downloads for your convenience.
Requirement 1: First Aid. Teaching aid HERE
Requirement 2: What Orienteering Is. We use a large poster printed on corrugated plastic.
Requirement 3: The Compass
Requirement 4: The Map
Requirement 5: Pace Count
Requirement 6: Control Descriptions and Orienteering Strategies
Requirement 7: Actually go Orienteering, 3 times and write up a report on how it went, how to do better.
Requirement 8: Setting your own course. If you are in our local area, use this base map and set a course at the Northeast Metro Park in Pflugerville. Or use a google map as a base map.
Requirement 9: Officiate at an event (run the starting area, finish area, score punch cards)
Requirement 10: Teach Orienteering Techniques