Compass resources

This task requires students to construct a right-angled isosceles triangle, leaving in all construction lines.

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 which of five compass orientations best show the direction of a magnetic field at four different locations.

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

Students locate positions on a treasure map using the major 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.

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.

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.

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.