Location and Position Teaching Resources
A collection of educational resources to use when learning about location and transformation. It also includes pre and post tests to assess your students' prior knowledge. Use these posters, worksheets, goal labels and activities when teaching your students about working with location and transformation concepts. Also included are vocabulary word wall cards to display and use when helping students learn and understand position, location and transformation vocabulary.
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Year 2 Locations and Directions Worksheet Pack
Build spatial reasoning skills with this locations and directions worksheet pack, designed to help Year 2 students use positional language, follow directions and interpret maps with confidence.
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Cartesian Plane Game — Galaxy Escape Room!
Play this engaging Cartesian plane game with your students to help refine their plotting skills as they make their escape!
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Compass Directions Worksheet
A worksheet to use when exploring grids, grid references and direction.
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Position Worksheets
Use these position worksheets to make sure your students are ‘on top of’ their spatial awareness skills.
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Giving Directions Worksheet Pack - Year 1 Location and Position
Deepen location and position understanding with this giving directions worksheet pack.
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Translations, Reflections and Rotations Worksheet Pack
Assign this translations, reflections, and rotations worksheet to give your students practise with transformations and positioning on the Cartesian plane.
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Reading a Map Grid Worksheet
Develop your students' map skills with a coordinate grid worksheet.
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Map Skills and Positional Language Worksheet Pack
Strengthen students' understanding of map skills, positional language and location and mapping concepts with this engaging worksheet pack.
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Shape Transformation Interactive Activity
Explore this shape transformation activity to help students identify and apply translations, reflections and rotations while building confidence with geometric reasoning.
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Cartesian Planes Worksheets
Utilise this Cartesian plane worksheet set to give your students practise locating and plotting points on the Cartesian plane.
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Location and Transformation Activity Escape Room
Explore location and the three different types of transformation - translation, reflection, and rotation in this fun and engaging Escape Room.
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Battleship Plotting Game (Quadrant 1 of the Cartesian Plane)
Use this grid system game to practise plotting coordinates on Quadrant 1 of the Cartesian plane.
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Input / Output Data Tables and Graphs Worksheets
Differentiate instruction with these data tables and graphs worksheets that have students completing input / output tables and plotting the points on a Cartesian plane.
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Interpreting Simple Maps Teaching Slides
Help Year 3 students explore location, position, landmarks and two-dimensional representations of familiar environments with these interpreting simple maps teaching slides.
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Positional Language Hands-On Activity Mats
Engage students with positional language using these fun hands-on activity mats, where they follow instructions to place pictures within five different scenes.
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Cartesian Plane Mystery Pictures
Practise graphing on the Cartesian plane with this set of differentiated mystery pictures.
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Using a Grid System — Worksheet Pack
Practise map skills with our printable 11-page grid system worksheet pack teaching children about coordinates.
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Cartesian Plane Drawing Pack
Use this Cartesian Plane Drawing Pack to give your students practice plotting coordinates on the Cartesian plane.
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Year 5 Transforming Shapes Worksheet Pack
Boost engagement with this transforming shapes worksheet pack.
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Map Skills Teaching Presentation
Teach basic map skills to younger students with this visually appealing and age-appropriate teaching presentation.
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Translations, Reflections and Rotations Poster Pack
Support reflections, translations and rotations instruction with this Year 5 poster pack.
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Cartesian Plane Games — "Roll and Graph"
Play our Cartesian plane games in your classroom to enhance students’ ability to plot points and find the distance between them.
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Year 2 Location and Position Teaching Slides
Teach location and position skills with these interactive teaching slides that help Year 2 students use maps, follow directions and apply positional language.
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My Dream Home Project
Introduce our 'My Dream Home Project’ to your students to help them increase spatial skills while designing the house of their dreams!
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Tessellation Activity — Year 6 Interactive
Investigate this tessellation activity to help Year 6 students explore transformations and create tessellating patterns through an engaging interactive task.
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A Map of Our Classroom - Mapmaking Project
Develop primary mapping skills with a classroom mapping project.
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Leisure Land - Map Skills Worksheet
Explore map skills with a theme park compass rose activity for Years 2–3.
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Cartesian Plane Pictures
Present these Cartesian plane pictures to your students to enhance their skills in plotting points in all four quadrants.
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Create Your Own Map - Worksheet
Create simple maps of familiar places with this set of map templates and accompanying comprehension questions.
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Shape Transformation — Design a School Crest Project
Teach shape transformation through a creative school crest design project that helps students apply translations, rotations and reflections in a meaningful way.
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Cartesian Plane Worksheet Set (Real-World Scenarios)
Differentiate with our Cartesian plane worksheet set full of real-world maths scenarios.
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Cardinal Directions - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Use cardinal directions to create a simple town map with this 2-page cut-and-paste activity sheet.