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It is a good way to get a discussion started on how useful various devices and maps are and what they are primarily best used for.

Bring a map of the local area to school or find one you can display on a screen.

Ask all the students who live North of the school to stand in one corner, all those who live South in another, East in another and West in another. Some students will live in between these directions but direct them to choose which direction is closest to the direction in which they live.

Use this same map to ask some questions about directions of other places.

Example: In which direction is the library from the school etc.

Play a “Simon says” type game where all students start facing one direction. You will need to decide which direction North is – you could choose the front of the classroom or some other direction.

Several students will need to be watchers for those who get out.

Tell them to “face West”. All those students who started to turn a direction other than west are out.

The last person left standing is the winner.

Take students to a large space such as a hall or gymnasium or outside.

Get students to stand in rows.

Make a coordinate system by putting pieces of paper at the beginning of each row and column.

Alternatively you could get students at the ends of the rows and columns to hold mini whiteboards.

Ask each student to use the coordinate system to describe where they are standing.

This displays a desk with a grid over it.

Students are asked for the coordinates of certain objects and also what is in the squares given by some coordinates.