Position and Direction - Describe Movement - Worksheet

The "Describe Movement" worksheet is an engaging resource designed to help Year 6 students understand geometry, specifically the concept of translation on a coordinate grid. The National Curriculum objective for this lesson is to describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left or right and up or down. To facilitate this learning, differentiated sheets and teaching slides are provided as resources. Key vocabulary such as shapes, point, coordinate, grid, left, right, up, and down are introduced to ensure students can accurately articulate the movement of shapes and points on a grid.

Students are encouraged to use sentence stems to describe the translation of shapes, beginning with left/right movements followed by up/down. For example, they might say, "Shape A is translated ____ left/right and ____ up/down to shape B." Understanding the concept of 'corresponding vertices' is crucial as students describe the translation of shapes, ensuring they match vertex A on the original shape to vertex A on its new position. The worksheet challenges students to describe translations between different objects and points, such as squares and octagons, and to plot new points and describe the translations to these points. This activity not only reinforces their understanding of translation but also hones their reasoning and problem-solving skills.