Compass games kids interactive

Make sure you don't label which point is which, since the goal of the activity for the kids to determine that. Before you get started, split the group into two teams. The teams will alternate turns shooting the ball until all team members have gone the agreed upon number of times you'll want to scale the number of turns the size of your group, and the amount of time you have available. Here's how you play: at the beginning of each turn, you will call one of the 8 cardinal or ordinal directions.

The team member whose turn it is must immediately go to the corresponding point, and take a shot. If a team member goes to the incorrect point, they may not shoot. If the team member goes to the correct point, they will be awarded 2 points, and will be allowed to shoot. If the team member makes a basket, they will be awarded 1 additional point. After all team members have taken the agreed upon number of turns, tally the score for each team.

The team with the most points wins. This compass game can be tailored to kids with various levels of compass familiarity. For this game you'll need a compass, place marker, and direction sheet for each participating team. Divide your group into teams of about 3 each. Now, when creating your directions sheet, the key is to make sure they will lead your teams back to the point where they started.

This is how you'll know whether they followed the directions correctly. Like we mentioned earlier, you can cater your direction sheet to the level of your kids by using only cardinal directions for beginners, cardinal and ordinal directions for intermediate difficulty, and bearings for more advanced children. A beginner's direction sheet might look something like this: 1.

Take 5 steps South. Take 10 steps East. Take 20 steps North. Take 15 steps West. East and west are at right angles to north and south, with east being in the clockwise direction of rotation from north and west being directly opposite east.

Points between the cardinal directions form the points of the compass. The intermediate direction of every set of intercardinal and cardinal direction is called a secondary-intercardinal direction. This fun learning game may answer some of the following questions: Which are the four cardinal directions?

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