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🔄 Turns and Directions

Learn left and right, then spin into quarter turns, half turns, and full turns you can do with your whole body!

3
lessons
~15 min
to learn
🔢 Math
subject
Ages 6–12
level
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What you’ll learn

  1. Left and RightTell left from right and follow simple left, right, and straight-ahead directions.Your body has a left side and a right side. The hand you usually color and eat with is often your right hand, and the other is your left. When someone says turn left or turn right, you turn toward that hand. Knowing left from right helps you follow directions everywhere you go.
  2. Making TurnsMake and name quarter turns, half turns, and full turns with your body.A quarter turn is a small corner turn to face the side, like the corner of a square. A half turn takes you halfway around to face the opposite way, and two quarter turns make one half turn. A full turn goes all the way around so you face the front again. From smallest to biggest, the order is quarter, half, then full.
  3. Turns All Around UsSpot turns in everyday objects and celebrate what you have learned.Turns are everywhere: a clock's hand turns, a door swings on a turn, and a steering wheel turns the car. You turn your body when someone calls your name. Now you know left and right and can make quarter, half, and full turns like a pro.

Questions this course answers

You turn toward your right hand. Which way did you turn?

Turning toward your right hand means you turned to the right.

You spin all the way around and face the front again. What turn is that?

Going all the way around and ending where you started is a full turn.

You turn a little bit, like turning the corner of a square. What turn is that?

A small corner turn to face the side is a quarter turn.

You turn until you face the exact opposite way. What turn is that?

Facing the opposite direction is a half turn — halfway around.

Which turn is the BIGGEST?

A full turn goes all the way around, so it is the biggest turn.

Which of these makes a turn?

A steering wheel turns to steer the car — that is a real turn.

Grounded in trusted sources

  • PBS Kids — shapes and geometry
  • Khan Academy Kids
  • Britannica Kids
  • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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