Grade 5-6 Mathematics Lesson

Date: December 4, 2020

Strand:
Strand E: Spatial Sense Location and Movement

Level: Grade 5 and 6

Big Idea/Overarching Question

Locating Objects on Grids
(Positional Language and Movement)
Minds On (Full Class Activity)
Review from previous lesson
1) Compass Rose diagram
2) North/South/West/East and Up/Down/Left/Right word matching
activity — what common words can we use to describe these directions?
New learning
1) X -Y axes grid poster activity (X axis labeled with letters and y axis
labeled with numbers) — Identify the location of each object on the grid
Example: the tree is located at C3
Working On It
Worksheet activities from Leaps and Bounds (Marion Small)
“Locating Objects 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
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