Year 6 Bundle: Understanding Direction with Integers - Lesson Plan, Slides and Activities

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Teach positive and negative integers through engaging robot programming with this complete teaching bundle. Students use integers to represent direction and distance, track movement on horizontal and vertical number lines, and solve programming, decoding and debugging problems.

Combining a lesson plan, 26-slide editable teacher presentation and three differentiated student activities, this curriculum-aligned bundle provides a complete sequence for teaching positive and negative integers through movement.

Built around the I Do, We Do, You Do model, students move from explicit teacher modelling to guided practice and independent application. They interpret positive and negative movements, follow sequential commands from zero, determine final positions and apply their understanding to robot programming tasks.

What's included in this teaching bundle?

Lesson Plan (PDF)

• Clear learning intention and success criteria
• Explicit teaching of positive and negative integers as direction and distance
• Modelled examples tracking sequential movement from zero
• Guided practice using horizontal and vertical number lines
• Robot programming, decoding and debugging tasks
• Check-ins for understanding
• Formative exit ticket

Teacher Slides (PowerPoint)

• 26 editable, ready-to-teach slides
• Explicit teaching of positive and negative movement
• Modelled examples tracking robot movements step-by-step
• Horizontal and vertical number lines to represent direction and distance
• Guided robot programming, decoding and debugging tasks
• Practice determining final positions from sequential commands
• Interactive check-in questions throughout

Differentiated Student Activities (PDF)

• Three differentiated independent activity worksheets
• Robot programming, decoding and debugging activities
• Practice representing movement on horizontal and vertical number lines
• Tasks interpreting positive and negative direction and distance
• Multi-step movement sequences and final-position problems
• Opportunities to create and analyse robot movement commands
• Answer sheets for each differentiated activity

Ideal for upper primary classrooms, this bundle provides a structured and engaging approach to teaching positive and negative integers through robot programming, number lines and purposeful problem-solving.

Formats: PowerPoint and PDF

Aligned to Australian Curriculum: Recognise situations, including financial contexts, that use integers; locate and represent integers on a number line and as coordinates on the Cartesian plane (AC9M6N01)

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