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Autobiographical Art
Students explore how one artist portrays her own experiences and interests through her art. Students then choose themes in their own lives and create works of art inspired by those themes.
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Nature's Polyhedrons
Students discover the characteristics of polyhedra. Through hands-on activities and interactive videos, students investigate and retrieve information on polyhedra and crystal structures. Students study angles and symmetry. They...
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Geometric Angles
Learners explore angles and their use in Geometry. Students investigate three different kinds of angles: obtuse, acute, and right angles through an online activity. They identify pairs of angles with special relationships: vertical,...
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Lift and Launch Angle
Students engage in a hands-on experiment to determine how launch angles affect airflow around the wing of an aircraft. They view a series of photographs and read information describing the Wright Brothers' experiences. They complete a...
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Tomb Robbers
Sixth graders examine benchmark angles embedded into a circle grid and examine how grid systems do not always have to be square. the game "Tomb Robbers" is used to develop strategies.
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Obtuse Angles
Third graders recognize and identify geometric shapes, work with manipulatives to reinforce understanding, and create polygons with various angles to display their knowledge of the different types of angles.
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What's Your Angle?
Third graders read the story, Magic Schoolbus Inside the Human Body. Then they form right, acute, and obtuse angles using the joints inside their bodies. They write a brief summary about what they learned about angles as a review the...
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Show Me the Way To Go Home
Students place a pencil perpendicular to the ground and trace its shadow between 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM. They measure the length of the shadow, periodically over several hours, in either English or Metric units. Using the data, they find...
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Transformations
Middle schoolers solve and identify 10 different problems that include transformations and identifying translations. They determine if each figure is an example of a translation and explain how each figure may or may not be a...
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Geometry Lesson 7: Line Segments And Angles
Fourth graders examine and identify line segments and angles using dot paper to draw them. They look at vertical, horizontal, intersecting, parallel and perpendicular lines, draw right angles and angles that are greater than and less...
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Complementary and Supplementary Angles #3
Learners are given one angle measurement and determine either the corresponding supplementary or complementary angle measurement. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Classifying Triangles
This presentation shows how triangles are classified by angle measurement and length of sides. It reviews isosceles, scalene, obtuse, right, and acute classifications and includes questions for students to classify some of the triangles...
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Daily Upkeep 7
In this geometry worksheet, 4th graders complete a quick set of math activities where they first identify which portion of a model is shaded in fraction form. Then, they select which angle best describes a given angle. Finally, students...
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Reviewing Azimuth
Combine angles and the compass rose in this labelling activity. Geographers begin by labeling the cardinal directions on a compass template, along with the degrees corresponding to each. They then add the azimuthal directions, labeling...
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Find Someone Who........
Fifth graders identify, describe, and classify lines, line segments, rays, and angles. When given a diagram of a line, they classify the line as perpendicular, parallel, intersecting, vertical, horizontal, and/or diagonal.
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Sum of Angles on a Triangle
Use this lesson for a basic review of angles. While the activities discussed are outlined, there are no materials provided to make implementation possible. When using this resource, it is necessary to create worksheets and other...
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Five Find the Unknown Angle Interactive Problems
In this unknown angle worksheet, students use trigonometry functions in five problems to find the unknown angles. Students may check their solutions and receive hints by using the "Check" and "Hint" button found at the bottom of the page.
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Angles in a Quadrilateral
In this online math worksheet, learners determine the values of angles within a quadrillateral. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific teaching...
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Law of Cosines
In this cosine activity, students will find the length of the third side of a triangle given the length of the other two side. Students will use the Law of Cosines to find the length of the missing side. Answers will be rounded to 3...
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Setting-up and Solving Linear Equations Using Knowledge of Angles
In this solving equations worksheet, students use their knowledge of angles to set-up and solve linear equations. The worksheet contains four problems and solutions are not provided.
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Airplane Wings
Students examine the aerodynamics of a wing and how it generates lift. In this flight lesson students complete several experiments including how to build a paper plane and how airfoils affect performance.
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Measure Up!
Young scholars examine parallax and angular measurements. For this investigative lesson students calculate distances of objects and map their results.
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Sixth Grade Mathematics Test
In this math instructional activity, 6th graders complete multiple choice questions about number sentences, composite numbers, angles, and more. Students complete 30 questions.
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Conditional Statements Multiple Choice
In this logic worksheet, students find inverse statements, contrapositives, and converses in ten multiple choice problems. The solutions are available by clicking on the "check your work" button found bottom left of the page.