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Welcome to Teaching Off Trail!
Bringing the world to your students & your students into the world.
Angles are everywhere! We teach angles so that our students can use them when building a fort today and a deck someday. We teach angles so they can use and appreciate them in their art, their science projects, and when they fine tune their golf swing. We talk about the angles of their baseball hits, soccer kicks, and basketball shots. They can see them in a unique building and appreciate them in a bridge. We do not teach angles so that students think they are only two flat boring lines on a piece of paper, so let’s not teach them with two boring lines on a piece of paper anymore! We are going Off Trail.
To make the concept of angles come alive, we are going to measure angles of things that ARE alive. Step outside into a yard, a forest, a prairie and wait until you start to see angle after angle…the angle of two petals, the veins of a leaf, the branches off a tree trunk. This work steps students through
- the parts of an angle,
- the types of angles, and
- how to use a protractor to measure angles.
Then we will step outside and do leaf rubbings to measure angles on the leaf, and they will hold up their protractor to real things to measure their angle and recreate the angle in a sketch. There is also a fun activity where students build angles with sticks. They would enjoy doing these pages again for they will find new things to measure each time! Practice makes progress…! Our job is to create memories and this will be hard to forget!
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Copyright © Teaching Off Trail. All rights reserved by author Connie Sirota. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY.
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Description
Welcome to Teaching Off Trail!
Bringing the world to your students & your students into the world.
Angles are everywhere! We teach angles so that our students can use them when building a fort today and a deck someday. We teach angles so they can use and appreciate them in their art, their science projects, and when they fine tune their golf swing. We talk about the angles of their baseball hits, soccer kicks, and basketball shots. They can see them in a unique building and appreciate them in a bridge. We do not teach angles so that students think they are only two flat boring lines on a piece of paper, so let’s not teach them with two boring lines on a piece of paper anymore! We are going Off Trail.
To make the concept of angles come alive, we are going to measure angles of things that ARE alive. Step outside into a yard, a forest, a prairie and wait until you start to see angle after angle…the angle of two petals, the veins of a leaf, the branches off a tree trunk. This work steps students through
- the parts of an angle,
- the types of angles, and
- how to use a protractor to measure angles.
Then we will step outside and do leaf rubbings to measure angles on the leaf, and they will hold up their protractor to real things to measure their angle and recreate the angle in a sketch. There is also a fun activity where students build angles with sticks. They would enjoy doing these pages again for they will find new things to measure each time! Practice makes progress…! Our job is to create memories and this will be hard to forget!
Terms of Use
Copyright © Teaching Off Trail. All rights reserved by author Connie Sirota. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY.
Follow me on Instagram! See you on FaceBook!
EMAIL: teachingofftrail@gmail.com
Shop my Teachers Pay Teachers store for more works like this!
