Direction resources

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

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 select the correct way to describe where a toy is located on a shelf.

Students listen to instructions about where to go when visiting the mall, then draw the path to be taken on a map and recall specific information. The assessment focus is on listening, recall, and following instructions.

Students respond to and give directions about a simple path on a map involving right or left turns.

Students identify books on a bookshelf using the directions left and right.

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

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

Students identify turns as left or right to describe a path taken on a simple street map.

Students identify the major compass directions (North, South, East, and West) to describe the paths people took on a simple plan of a zoo.

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.

Students draw in places onto a map following compass directions given in relation to existing landmarks.

For this practical task students create a sundial by marking observations and recording the time for each hour, and answer questions about shadows and sundials.

Students identify place names that children on a map of Pirate Island will be facing after making clockwise or anticlockwise turns.

Students identify where they face after making clockwise and anticlockwise turns.

Students show their understanding of directions by identifying which child will be chosen in a circular game for which “clockwise” instructions are given.

Students show their understanding of clockwise and anticlockwise directions by identifying which objects in a circle a pointer will point at.

Students describe a path (locus) drawn on a simple map of the zoo using the directions "left" or "right".

For this NEMP task students use a grid map of an island to locate positions and describe ways to move from one position to another.

Students identify objects on a shelf from given positional descriptions (above, below, over, under, beside, next to).

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.