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Maps and directions
An AR classroom game for Grade 1. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.
This set has 6 questions in an interactive multiple choice activity.
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A look before you play
Sample questions
A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.
Where does the sun rise?
- east
- west
- north
Read the explanation
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
Where does the sun set?
- south
- west
- east
Read the explanation
In the evening the sun drops below the horizon in the west.
How many cardinal directions are there?
- 6
- 8
- 4
Read the explanation
There are four: north, south, east and west.
Before you play
Game teaching guide
What children will practise
Practises the four cardinal directions using sunrise in the east and sunset in the west, finding east when facing north, and knowing what maps and map symbols are for. Fits indicator ส 5.1 ป.1/2.
What's in the worksheet
6 questions, 3 options each - Where does the sun rise? (east) - How many cardinal directions are there? (4) - Facing north, which side is east? (your right) - Why do maps have symbols? (they stand for things so the map is easy to read)
How to use it in class
Before playing, label north, south, east and west on the classroom walls by the real directions; the game takes about 7 minutes, whole class. For the facing-north question, have everyone stand, face the north sign and raise their right hand. For the symbols question, show a simple school or community map. For a question many miss, look at where the sun is from the playground one morning. Play it linked to the class and the scores go into the gradebook.
Common sticking points
- Facing north: Grade 1 children are still unsure of left and right and often pick left. Standing up and doing it helps most. - Cardinal directions: some choose 8, having seen a compass with in-between points. - Sunset: children who only remember the first question may answer east again. Chant the pair: rises in the east, sets in the west.
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