Maps resources

Students identify directions on a grid map as vector co-ordinates.

Students use given times to calculate how long it takes to travel between two towns on a network map, including finding the quickest route.

Students use a map to help them describe the shortest route away from and back to two New Zealand cities.

Students read a map of a new school, and answer questions about the placement of some trees. They are assessed on their ability to suggest the trees' impact on the school environment.

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 draw the bird's-eye view of each of three buildings that are pictured.

Students use grid references to locate places on a map of Auckland and give grid references of specified places.

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

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

Students identify distances and mark positions on a treasure map with a scale.

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

Students locate positions on a treasure map using the major compass directions.

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

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

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 calculate the shortest distance between two points on a grid map by using a scale.

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

Students use a plan of the school and a scale to answer questions about length and distance of buildings and courts in the school.

In this NEMP task students interpret an image of a treasure map.