Position and location: Year 5 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Position and location. Students use a grid coordinate system to locate and describe the position of objects, and use relevant positional and use coordinates and directional language to describe position and movement.
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| Year level(s) | Year 5 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks |
| Format | Web page |
| Keywords | lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Position and location |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M5SP02
Construct a grid coordinate system that uses coordinates to locate positions within a space; use coordinates and directional language to describe position and movement |
| Numeracy progression |
Positioning and locating (P5)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Commonwealth of Australia |
| Copyright | © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated |
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