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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Position and location
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M5SP02
- Numeracy progression
- Positioning and locating (P5)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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