Objective:

1) The student will understand the concept of horizontal and vertical.

2) The student will describe the geometric movement of a rook on a grid, horizontally and vertically.

Method:

1) The teacher demonstrates the movement of a rook - both backwards and forwards, horizontally and vertically, any number of squares as descibed by a straight line.

2) The rook cannot jump over pieces, but may capture an opponent's piece by moving onto the square it occupies.

3) The attacking rook occupies the place of the opponent's piece, which is then removed from the board.

4) Observe student performance, assist in navigating the website where required.

Content:

Using the demonstration board, the teacher models the straight line movement of a rook.

In pairs, students observe and immitate the rook's movement on their board.

Students practise moving the rook in a straight line, both vertically and horizontally.

The teacher demonstrates how a rook captures another piece.

Other chess pieces are placed on the board.

The attacking rook moves either vertically or horizontally toward an opponent's piece.

It occupies the square on which the opponent's piece is standing.

The opponent's piece is then removed from the chess board.

Note: In chess, no one can capture one of his/her own pieces

Follow up:

Students then place all four rooks on the chess board.

Students play a game of cat and mouse using only the rooks.

The challenge: students are to capture the opponent's rooks by moving their rook in turn, much like a game of cat and mouse.