Compass Drawings

The case can be turned round in a complete circle and is marked with lots of little lines and some letters. N is for North, S is for South, E is for East and W is for West, although once you know where North is, you can work out all the other directions yourself.

If you imagine a line between the North and the East, that would be North East (NE), and for a line between the South and the West, that would be South West (SW). The bears soon got the hang of it.

For their first lesson, they had to hold the compass flat in their paws, and wait for the needle to stop moving. Then they turned the compass case around gently until the letter 'N' on the ring was lined up with the coloured end of the floating compass needle.

If they then lined themselves up so that the needle was pointing straight ahead of them, they were facing North. That meant that directly behind them would be South, and to their left would be West and to their right would be East.