Year 1 - Term 1, Week 8 In the Mathematician Centre students have enjoyed planning and creating maps of their day. Students have represented their maps in various ways using drawings, labels, times, and visual schedules. This week’s focus is to give students some direction and opportunities to further their learning and move to the ‘what’s next’ part of our learning. The focus will be on early introduction of ‘mapping’ concepts and understanding of how maps work, as well as ‘what other maps can be created to reflect about themselves’. Drawing maps introduces children to spatial relationships and representation; where things and places are in relation to other things, as well as early mapping skills and vocabulary. Introduction: Look at the ‘Together we…’ flowchart. Explain to students that to be successful learners in learning centres, we need to work through each process/step of the flowchart. We need to read the prompt carefully, then Plan, Create, Share and Think what’s Next in our learning. Explain that today we will be looking at the Think what’s Next in our learning. Explain to students that a map is a drawing of a place, and maps convey information. Most maps are drawn as if you are looking down from above or an aeroplane. Discuss the various types of maps eg. map of your bedroom, park, street maps, shopping centre maps, school maps, countries, weather etc Introduce the story ‘Mapping my day’ by Julie Dillemuth. Ask students to notice how the little girl has drawn maps to show parts of her day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Sxnisk4-H58 https://www.getepic.com/app/read/72634 Discuss- the different maps the little girl has drawn to represent parts of her day. TPS -Have students think about their day. Ask students to choose one aspect of their day/or day on the weekend that they would like to map. eg they could map their bedroom, their family, where they sit with the family to eat, their backyard, garden, park etc Show the students the criteria of 'what to include on your map'. Explain that students need to add the following when creating their maps. These include: a title to show what your map is about, drawings as if you are looking down from above, map symbols or a key, labels on your map and a compass rose. Display- some examples of maps. Look at the similarities/differences. Talk about the features on the maps. Eg aerial drawings, labels, compass rose, symbols, arrows etc Teacher models- Choose an event from the day to represent in the form of a map. Show the students how to draw the map using the elements discussed above. Discuss how big the objects are in relation to each other. Include elements of direction, symbols and labels.
Share - Students share their map of an event during their day with year 1 during reflection.
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