Position and Direction - Describe Movement - Presentation

In this series of teaching slides for a lesson on Position and Direction, students in Year 6 are encouraged to delve deeper into the concept of translation. Translation refers to the movement of a shape from one position to another on a grid without altering its orientation or size. The students are tasked with identifying what characteristics of the shape change and what remain constant during this process. The slides guide the students through various activities where they must describe the movement of shapes on a grid, including translating shapes in reverse and recognizing patterns in these movements.

Activities are designed to help students articulate the specifics of translation, such as moving a shape '2 right and 1 down' or '3 right and 2 up'. Students are encouraged to discuss the translations between different points, like from A to B and then from B to C, and to plot new points to describe further translations. The lesson also includes reasoning exercises where students need to identify and explain errors in described translations, such as when a shape is incorrectly said to have moved '4 right and 5 up'. Further independent work challenges them to describe translations on grids and observe the resulting changes in coordinates, reinforcing their understanding of the relationship between movement and position in a two-dimensional space.