Following Spatial Directions
Math and Social Studies Integrated
In a small group, a teacher or aide gives directions to students. Each student has a mat -- a simple drawing with this on it: a barn, a mud puddle, a fence near the bottom of the mat that defines the farm -- would make it in the right hand corner, hills in the background, a haystack, and a rock by the mud puddle. These can be very simple drawings. I would laminate the mats -- make 5-6.
You also need pigs -- I have a bagful of little plastic stand up pigs I bought at a Math Conference in Palm Springs. Below are the instructions for the teacher to �read� one at a time to the students. Proceed with the next one only after the teacher/aide has checked each child�s placement or answer.
If the students �copy� each other at first, it is ok. If they continue waiting to see what other students are doing, encourage that student to do it first and then the others follow so they get confidence to do their own work.
PIG Activities:
1. Put one pig BY the barn door.
2. Put two pigs IN the mud puddle.
3. How many pigs are ON the farm mat now? (3)
4. Take one pig OUT of the mud puddle but not off the mat.
5. How many pigs are ON the farm mat now? (3)
6. Put one pig OUTSIDE the fence.
7. How many are on the farm mat now? (4)
8. Put two pigs BY the barn door and take away all the rest of the pigs ON the mat.
9. Put one pig on the haystack.
10. How many more are BY the barn door than ON the haystack? (1)
11. Put one pig BY the side of the rock and CLOSE to the mud puddle.
12. Put two pigs BY the hills.
13. Take away one pig BY the barn door.
14. How many pigs are left ON the mat?
15. Remove all the pigs except the one BY the rock and mud puddle.
16. How many standing pigs fit TO COVER the haystack?
17. REMOVE all pigs.
18. How many pigs will fit in the mud puddle LYING ON THEIR SIDES?
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