I briefly mentioned in the previous locus post that a treasure map is a fun application of the concepts in locus. Think about pirate movies..."5 paces from the tree, and 3 paces from the fence!" (There could be up to four possible locations for that treasure...)
I first tried to design a treasure hunt using the whole school, a la geocaching, but the impracticality of that became quickly apparent. So, I designed a smaller scale treasure hunt within my classroom.
It's designed for use with student desks in a 6 x 5 grid. Before class, you hide treasures (I used colored index cards with a funny quote or comic) by taping them under certain desks. You provide the students with a map of the desks they can write on, and a sheet of compound locus descriptions that tell them how to locate the treasure.
I've used this several times and it was successful and fun. I hope you find it useful!
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I don't have to teach locus, but your lesson gave me an idea for teaching the coordinate plane using the classroom and desks as points on the plane. Students would be given coordinates and have to move to them and/or find specific treasures there. Thank you again!
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