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Review vocabulary flash cards: geometry vocabulary review flash cards
Tier One Activities (typical learner)
A. Guess the Random Angle
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=angle
• Select the Random Either button under the Random Angle Generator title.
• The angle will appear on the protractor.
• Make sure “Num Lock” is activated and use the keypad to type in your angle estimate.
• Check your answer by selecting the round check button.
B. Show the Angle http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/protractor.html
• Use the arrows to create 3 acute and 3 obtuse angles.
• Draw each angle and record the measurement in degrees.
C. Hitting the Target http://www.hittingthetarget.com/hittingthetarget.php
Learn about angles through sports:
• In the football section you will learn about right angles.
• In the tennis section you will learn about acute angles.
• In the cricket section you will learn about obtuse angles. • Keep score at quiz time of how many you have correct and incorrect.
D. Cyber Chase – Star Gazing http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/anglemeasurement/anglemeasurement.html
• Help Digit fill his scrapbook by pointing his telescope to each planet in the night sky.
• Be sure to complete this before the sun comes up.
• How did you determine where the telescope should go?
• Did you accuracy improve over time? Why or why not?
Tier Two Activities (extra dose to support new concept learning)
E. Banana Hunt Game http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/bananahunt/bhunt.html
• Try and find where the banana is located by dragging the monkey to where you think the bananas are located
• You receive more points for accuracy.
• Describe how your strategy as you played the game and how you knew your answer was close or not.
F. Kung Fu Angles http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/flash/kfa/kfa.shtml
• Turn you body so that you can defend yourself from the attacker. Each shaded part of the circle, are ten degrees. There are 36 sections, because there is 360 degrees in a circle.
• How are the angles of a circle and the angles of a protractor different?
Extra Practice to develop concept understanding:
G. Hitting the Target: Snooker Game http://www.hittingthetarget.com/hittingthetarget.php
• In this section, you will go through a tutorial that reinforces how to use a protractor to measure angles.
• Once you are through the tutorial, you will practice measuring angles in a real world experience.
Enrichment-for those who like a challenge:
H. Burst the Balloons: Clown Cars http://www.lgfl.net/lgfl/leas/haringey/web/teachers%20section/KS2/ICT/Links%20&%20Resources/documents/clowns.swf
• In this game you drive a car trying to burst as many balloons to earn points using angles to drive the car.
http://www.math-play.com/Geometry-Math-Games.html