Activity 4: Cardinal Directions Geography / Key Stage 1 / Geographical skills Timeframe: 30 minutes and fieldwork Take your students out into an open area in your Point out the directions of school’s playground. English / Key Stage North, East, South and West and relate them to landmarks around the playground that the 1 / Listening students can see (e.g. the school is the oval). Go through each direction ‘North’ is canteen, ‘South’ several times to reinforce the direction and the landmark to which it is related. Once students are familiar with these associations, you can initiate a game of “Captain’s Coming” using cardinal directions instead of ship directions. Ask students to turn their bodies toward the appropriate landmark. Continue to shout out directions to assess whether students have understood this concept. ACTIVITY RESOURCES OBJECTIVE
Activity 4: Cardinal Directions Timeframe: 30 minutes Take your students out into an open area in your school’s playground. Point out the directions of North, East, South and West and relate them to landmarks around the playground that the students can see (e.g. ‘North’ is the school canteen, ‘South’ is the oval). Go through each direction several times to reinforce the direction and the landmark to which it is related. Once students are familiar with these associations, you can initiate a game of “Captain’s Coming” using cardinal directions instead of ship directions. Ask students to turn their bodies toward the appropriate landmark. Continue to shout out directions to assess whether students have understood this concept. Geography / Key Stage 1 / Geographical skills and fieldwork English / Key Stage 1 / Listening ACTIVITY RESOURCES OBJECTIVE
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