Position and Direction - Draw on a Grid - Worksheet

The "Draw on a Grid" worksheet is a practical tool for Year 6 students to enhance their understanding of geometry, specifically focusing on plotting coordinates and shapes within the first quadrant of a 2-D grid. The National Curriculum objective for this lesson is for children to describe positions on a grid using coordinates and to draw polygons by connecting specified points. To accomplish this task, students will need differentiated sheets and teaching slides. The key vocabulary for this lesson includes terms such as axes, x-axis, y-axis, coordinates, and point. Students will learn to read and write coordinate pairs and use precision in plotting points directly on the grid lines to form various shapes such as squares, triangles, rectangles, rhombuses, and hexagons.

Throughout the lesson, children will be encouraged to ask critical questions like whether to plot points on or next to the grid lines and the correct order for reading and plotting coordinates. They will also explore the impact of plotting numbers on the axes in different orders. To facilitate accurate plotting, the use of a ruler is recommended. The worksheet activities are designed to incrementally challenge the students, starting with plotting simple shapes and progressing to more complex tasks that require adding additional points to create specific polygons. The lesson culminates in a reasoning and problem-solving section where students engage with questions posed by a character named Zach, who presents statements about plotting points and creating shapes for the children to agree or disagree with, providing an opportunity for deeper understanding and discussion.