Lesson Plan 5: The amazing maze rescue
Focus Questions:
- Way finding, primed search, spatial orientation – aware of their direction.
- How do the children complete a primed search, wayfinding task? (A searching task in which the navigator knows the location of the target. The search is non-exhaustive)
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What search behaviour and search strategies do the children exhibit?
- What are the children’s strategies to:
- Orientate through the space? (Are they aware of their direction?)
- Find the turtle?
- Remember where things (environmental, background info) are?
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Know which routes to take?
(Do the children look in 3D but think in 2D i.e. from a bird’s eye view?)
Resources:
Pencils, maps of maze (basic and complete), computers with VRMath2.0, worksheet (pages 14-15)
Sequence:
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[15 mins] Free play in the maze, look for the turtle.
Clues: Basic Map with boundaries, starting point, columns, goal and north.
Wall differences – red brick are the boundary walls.
When the children make a turn:
What direction are you facing now? (NESW)
How do you know it’s a dead end?
Have you been to this place before?
What were your strategies?
Did you use the directions? Did you use objects/landmarks to help you?
How did you find your way?
How are you thinking?
How can we make it better?
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[20 mins] Map reading
Children are given a print out of the maze map. This is an aid to help them walk through the 3D maze.
Did you use the directions? Did you use objects/landmarks to help you?
What direction are you facing now?
How do you know it’s a dead end?
Have you been to this place before?
What were your strategies?
How did you find your way?
How are you thinking?
How can we make it better?
Challenge – once the children have found the turtle, take away the map and ask them to find it again.
Was this harder? Why?
What strategies did you use to find the turtle again?
- [5 mins] Farewell and thank you.
Click here to visit this lesson in VRMath 2.0 (new window opens).
