Bearings resources

Students identify towns and cities on a map using compass points.

For this practical task students are required to follow, by physically stepping them out, a set of compass directions.

For this task students are required to record, in a table, the compass bearings of objects shown on a submarine radar screen. Distances from the submarine are also recorded.

Students identify the compass direction that describes travel between two towns on a map.

Students use a protractor to locate towns on a map from given compass bearings.

From a list students select the compass direction or directions that children on a playground grid need to move to reach pieces of equipment or objects.

Students make a series of rotational turns based on compass positions.

Students are required to describe the compass direction and distance that an ant travels toward different items of food positioned on a grid.

Students write the bearing and distance of a number of objects on a radar screen.

Students identify points on a circular grid using references that give distance and direction (expressed in clock bearings).

This task requires students to write a set of instructions based on compass directions that would guide a lost tramper to a Rescue Hut on a map with marked paths and landmarks.

Students demonstrate their knowledge of north, south, east, and west by giving the names of people shown on a plan of a forest park.