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Basic Geometry ... A Pathway to Angles
Help 9th graders identify lines, points, rays, and planes in geometry. They practice identifying, measuring, and drawing angles of different degrees. This is a fundamental lesson to help students learn the building blocks of geometry.
Virginia Department of Education
Lines and Angles
Explore angle relationships associated with transversals. Pupils construct parallel lines with a transversal and find the measures of the angles formed. They figure out how the different angles are related before constructing...
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Lesson 3: Measuring Angles
Young scholars use a protractor to measure angles. They classify angles by type: right angle, acute angles, and obtuse angles. Students build and draw right, acute, and obtuse angles. They discuss how do people in various professions use...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Arcs and Angles
Noah didn't construct this kind of arc. High school scholars first explore how angles can be formed in circles. They then learn relationships between angles and arcs by conducting an exploratory activity where they position and draw arcs...
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Know Your Angles
Explore types of angles and the characteristics of each. After observing a PowerPoint Presentation, learners tour the school facilities and use a digital camera to capture prescribed angles. Using the digital pictures and written...
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Measure: Bearings and Scale Drawings
Pupils practice drawing geometric figures. In this geometry lesson plan, learners complete an activity that requires them to draw angles and shapes to the nearest degree.
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Measuring, Drawing and Naming Angles
Upper graders examine all angles. In this angle lesson, pupils practice measuring, drawing, and naming angles. They create posters regarding angle vocabulary.
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Measure: Bearings and Scale Drawings
Young mathematicians practice measuring acurately with a protractor. They convert measurements using a scale factor, then translate the new information into diagrams. This lesson should be a hit in that it's mostly hands-on work with the...
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Angle Relationships
Students investigate geometric relationship using conjecture about linear pairs and vertical angles. In this geometry instructional activity, students apply their theorems and previous geometry knowledge to solve for and find...
Utah Education Network (UEN)
Angles, Degrees, Protractors . . . Oh My!
Fourth and fifth graders make a protractor and identify various angle types. In this protractor and angle lesson, learners make their own protractor and use it to measure a variety of angles. They complete worksheets while identifying...
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Supplementary, Complementary, and Vertical Angles
By using circles that they cut out and label themselves, learners literally "get a grip" on the angles they identify: supplementary, complementary, and vertical. They solve missing measurements based on properties of supplementary,...
EngageNY
Angles Associated with Parallel Lines
Explore angle relationships created by parallel lines and transversals. The 13th lesson of 18 prompts scholars use transparency paper to discover angle relationships related to transversals. Learners find out that these angles pairs are...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Unit Circle: Special Angles—Just Know One
It's all about the patterns! Young scholars learn that the unit circle repeats itself in all four quadrants. Using these patterns, they evaluate the sine, cosine, and tangent of special angles.
EngageNY
Congruence Criteria for Triangles—AAS and HL
How can you prove it? Guide classes through an exploration of two possible triangle congruence criteria: AAS and HL. Learners connect this criteria to those previous learned and also explore criteria that does not work. The activity...
University of Nottingham
Drawing to Scale: A Garden
See how design and geometry go hand in hand. The activity asks learners to use geometry to design a backyard garden given dimensions of each feature. Scholars work with ratios and scale to develop an accurate scale drawing that includes...
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Forming, Measuring and Labeling Angles
Pupils draw and measure angles. In this angle measurement lesson, the teacher demonstrates how to form and measure angles while explaining the parts of an angle, then students practice.
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Identifying Angles
Students identify names of angles. They use a large clock to demonstrate angles using certain times of day. Given a geoboard, students create figures with acute, right, and obtuse angles.
EngageNY
Unknown Angles
How do you solve an equation like trigonometry? Learners apply their understanding of trigonometric ratios to find unknown angles in right triangles. They learn the meaning of arcsine, arccosine, and arctangent. Problems include...
EngageNY
Solving for Unknown Angles Using Equations III
Challenge your classes to combine geometric and algebraic concepts with an activity that builds on concepts learned in the first three lessons of the series. The fourth part asks scholars to identify geometric angle relationships and use...
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An Introduction to Angles
Students identify and create angles. In this angle measurement activity, students use sticks to make models of angles, then measure and name each angle.
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Cabri Jr. Inscribed Angles
Young scholars construct inscribed angles using Cabri Jr. They draw a circle on their graphing calculator, then construct an inscribed angle and measure its angle measures. Learners drag the inscribed angle around the circle. They make...
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Hypatia: Angles
Introduce your young geometers to Hypatia, the first noted Greek female mathematician, and the properties of angles. Though this resource is missing worksheets that are needed to complete the lesson, the structure is sound and learning...
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Sample Lesson Plan on Lines and Angles
Student complete worksheet using the definitions of lines and angle vocabulary. They define the word and follow a direction given on the worksheet such "construct a line." They complete an online tutorial on how to measure angles using a...
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Measuring Angles in a Triangle
High schoolers investigate the sum of the measures of the angles of a triangle. They draw a triangle and measure the interior angles. Using Cabri Jr., learners find the sum of the measures of the interior angles. The activity provides an...