Grade 5-6 Mathematics Lesson

Date: December 3, 2020

Strand:
Strand E: Spatial Sense Location and Movement
Level: Grade 5 and 6

Big Idea/Overarching Question

Cardinal directions on grids - North/South/West/East
(Positional Language and Movement)
Minds On
1) Compass Rose diagram - what can you tell me about this image?
2) North/South/West/East and Up/Down/Left/Right word matching activity — what
common words can we use to describe these directions?
3) Map of Canada - what ocean is found in the west of Canada? What ocean is found
in the east of Canada? What ocean is found in northern Canada? What country is
found south of Canada?
4) Grid drawn on blackboard - what shape is located north? what shape is located
south? what shape is located west? what shape is located east?
5) Compass activity - teacher locate’s north using the compass.
Ask students to locate an object in the classroom that is in each cardinal direction -
north, south, west and east
Working On It
Worksheet activities from Leaps and Bounds (Marion Small)
“Cardinal Directions on Grids”
Consolidtion/Sharing
During Minds On full class activities
Assessment
Worksheets marked and handed back to students for corrections
Level of student understanding recorded on Assessment sheet as Excellent
(exceeding expectation), Very good (above expectation), good(meets expectation),
moderate (slightly below expectation), mostly (below expectation), somewhat
(below expectation), incomplete
Home Connection
Class Discussion: Why learn Cardinal directions? What’s the importance?
Examples: GPS, Learning how to drive a car, Getting from one location to another,
reading a map, working a compass