Lesson One – Robot Instructions

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to select and give correct instructions about how to perform a range of special movements to different locations around the classroom.

The class can practise controlling each other as a class robot when issuing instructions about where to move to in the classroom in response to the correct vocabulary words.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and give correct instructions about how to perform a range of special movements to different locations around the classroom

Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets for support, core and extension ability levels to select and give matching sets of instructions about how to perform different movements in the classroom when role-playing as a robot character.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and give matching sets of instructions about how to perform different movements in the classroom.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise selecting and using the correct vocabulary words to describe and control the position and movements of a robot character around a grid or other locations. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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