BusyTeacher’s TARA ARNTSEN has published an article on teaching directions.
Directions can be challenging to teach however its practical uses are readily understood by students and there are many fun activities you can incorporate into your lessons to make them more enjoyable. Typically the first directions lesson would follow lessons introducing vocabulary such as:https://www.facebook.com/v2.7/plugins/quote.php?app_id=144982482220091&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df1898a648dd1b98%26domain%3Dbusyteacher.org%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fbusyteacher.org%252Ff20199f8e52a3f4%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=1010&href=https%3A%2F%2Fbusyteacher.org%2F3609-how-to-teach-directions.html&locale=en_US&sdk=joey
- Post office
- Police station
- School
- Bank
- Playground
- Park
- Library and so on
These will be used extensively in directions lessons.
How To Proceed
- Warm Up – Directions
Get your students interested in learning how to give directions. On the board draw a rough map of the neighborhood, just a few streets and the school will do. Ask “Where is the school?” Have a student come to the board and point it out. Then ask where a few other landmarks are and have students draw and label them on your map”.