This pack contains a fun geography activity that students love - mapping their own pirate island! This social studies activity makes a great geography lesson. It's also a fantastic way to build upon ordinal directions and early mapping skills.
This easy-to-use packet includes:
- Teacher Instructions
- Geographic features (natural and built environment)
- Bird's eye view information
- Map keys and cardinal directions activities
- Recording geographic features of Pirate Island
- Writing ordinal directions to a hidden treasure map on Pirate Island
- Students brochure of Treasure Island - their own pirate map designed by them with a key and directions to hidden treasure.
Also comes with an 11 page whole-class PowerPoint you can use to guide students through the lesson.
Pirate Mapping Activity Geography Map Making
File Info
PDF & PowerPoint 42 pages zipped file
ACARA Alignment
FOUNDATION YEAR – Maths
Location and transformation
• Describe position and movement (ACMMG010)
• interpreting the everyday language of location and direction, such as ‘between’, ‘near’, ‘next to’, ‘forward’, ‘toward’.
• following and giving simple directions to guide a friend around an obstacle path and vice versa.
YEAR 1 – Maths
Location and transformation
• give and follow directions to familiar locations
• understanding that people need to give and follow directions to and from a place, and that this involves turns, direction and distance.
• understanding the meaning and importance of words such as ‘clockwise’, ‘anticlockwise’, ‘forward’ and ‘under’ when giving and following directions.
• interpreting and following directions around familiar locations.
YEAR 1 – HASS
•They represent the location of different places and their features on labelled maps and present findings in a range of texts and use everyday language to describe direction and location.