Geometry and Spatial Sense, Grades 4 to 6 - EduGains

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What’s on My Mind?
INSTRUCTIONS FOR WHAT’S ON MY MIND?
Students play in pairs or groups of three.
The students select a category – for example, names of people, countries, or animals.
Each student secretly writes down a word that he or she is thinking about in that category, and
writes the sequence of directions needed to reach the letters of the name. The letters can be
scrambled or out of order to add a challenge.
Getting to each new letter in the secret word should start at a shape, followed by the direc-
tions from that shape, for example:
S – From the triangle, east 4 and north 2
A – From the square, west 5 and south 1
M – From the hexagon, west 3 and north 3
The students decide who reads his or her clues first. That student keeps providing directions
for new letters until someone else in the group guesses the name. Each of the other students
in the group is allowed only one guess, so students should not be too quick to say a name. The
person who guesses the name first is the next person to call out the clues.
Geometry and Spatial Sense, Grades 4 to 6
North
X
A G W Q K
V B Y I Z
E T M R O
P D N S L
West East
U F C H J
South