Lesson Planning

Learn how to use a compass and how to read the typography of the land. Can you then create a treasure map and use your understanding of compass directions and contours to set clues that unlock a password and the location of the treasure?

Teaching Outcomes

• To use a compass.
• To use grid references, compass directions and symbols to locate places on a map.
• To describe human and physical features, including contours and relief.

Children will

• Use a compass correctly.
• Create a treasure map using compass directions, contours and symbols.
• Describe direction, and human and physical features of a journey.

Enrichment Activities

• Write a tourist guide using persuasive language.
• Sculpt a landscape from clay using a hill drawn in contour lines for inspiration.
• Complete a map-based scavenger hunt using an interactive map.
• Create a sketch/painting.
• Compose a short musical piece that reflects a landscape.