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30 March 2021

This is a KS3 / KS2 lesson on compass points. It is an excellent lesson to peak students’ interest in maps and to pass on map skills. Key facts about the lesson are:

The content covered by the lesson are; Description of a compass and its purpose, using 4, 8 and 16 point compasses, locating places in different hemispheres of the earth (northern, southern, western an eastern).
Learning resources used in the lesson are; labelling compass coordinates, atlas compass task, hemisphere atlas task.
Other facts; The answers for the practice activities are included on the ppt which makes it even easier for non specialists to deliver.
The lesson is planned in detail and most of the resources for teaching the lesson are included in the ppt; starter, learning activities with resources, clear outline of learning tasks and a plenary. You will need atlases/maps of the UK for this task. Now just download and teach!

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Map skills lessons - complete set

There are seven (7) lessons in this bundle. It's the complete set of map skill lessons that is usually taught to year 7s at the beginning of the school year. This bundle will cover your planning for entire first half-term. All the resources to deliver the lessons are included in the ppts. The ppts are very easy to follow and answers to practice tasks are included to make it easy for non-specialist who might be teaching this topic. The lessons are very practical so students will be doing most of the work while the teacher can provide one-one attention. The lessons included are: 1. Qualities of a good map 2. Map symbols 3. Map scales 4. Compass coordinates 5. Grid reference 6. Relief 7. Contours A description of each lesson can be found on my page for each individual lesson.

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Map skills

There are 4 lessons in this bundle. 1. Qualities of a good map: This lesson covers what is a map, what should all good maps have, how to draw sketch maps and what are mental maps 2. Map symbols: This lesson covers what are map symbols, how to use symbols to learn about a place, identifying different OS map symbols. 3. Map sclaes: This lesson covers what are scales, how are scales used, types of map scales, scaling things up and scaling things down. 4. Compass coordinates: This lesson covers 4, 8 and 16 point compass, how to use compass and what are hemispheres.

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