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Lesson Plan

Are You At Your Destination?

Show your students how coordinate planes can be useful in seeing the distance between various locations! Have them draw shapes on a coordinate plane and determine the location of corners.
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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to plot points on a coordinate plane. Students will be able to identify the X and Y coordinates of a point that is plotted.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Ask students to give you directions to get to the shelf or another location using the words right, left, up, and down. For example: Walk 2 steps up and 4 steps left.