Curated OER
Sleuth Rays
Students conduct a close examination of the atom's electrons, and discover how to theorize the energy levels, observe the brightness of light, classify colors, and measure temperature.
EngageNY
Sequencing Rotations
Discover the result of a sequence of rotations about different centers. Pupils perform rotations to examine the patterns. They also describe the sequence of rotations that performed to reach a desired result in the ninth installment in a...
EngageNY
Review of the Assumptions (part 2)
Is the amount of information getting overwhelming for your geometry classes? Use this strategy as a way to organize information. The resource provides a handout of information studied in relation to triangle congruence. It includes a...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 6 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 4)
In need of math vocabulary cards? Use a set of 66 vocabulary cards with topics focused mostly on geometry terms. Each sheet has two cards on it. The top half has the word printed in bold text, while the bottom half has the card with...
Curated OER
Polygons All Around Us!
Students explore the concept of polygon properties. For this polygon properties lesson, students draw polygons with different numbers of sides such as pentagons, octagons, hexagons, etc. Students identify different geometric shapes in...
Curated OER
Three Tangent Circles
In this tangent circles worksheet, students use pi to solve a problem involving tangent circles. This one-page worksheet contains 1 problem. The answer is provided at the bottom of the page.
Curated OER
Tessellations
Students create tessellations. In this geometry lesson plan, students use polygons to create different patterns by rotation. They identify the reasons for polygons to create the type of tessellation it does.
Curated OER
Triangle Explorer
Students calculate the area of triangles using a variety of materials including computer applets.
Curated OER
Meet the Polygon Family
Fourth graders investigate regular polygons. In this regular polygon lesson, 4th graders explore the attributes of different polygons. Students work in groups to complete a KWL chart regarding polygons.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Measure and Draw Angles
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson has many student interactive tricks. It is very exciting and gets the students actively engaged as they solve problems on the board. The lesson is an introduction to angles. It also reviews...
BBC
Bbc: Angles
You can pick up some valuable pointers on angles and lines here. When you finish working your way through the pages you can take an on-line "Test Bite," and check your understanding.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Find the Missing Angle
For this task, 8th graders are presented with a drawing of two parallel lines connected through two line segments. They are given the measures of two angles and are asked to find a third. Aligns with 8.G.A.5.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Geometry: Measure Line Segments
Explores how to measure the length of a line segment through examples and a video lesson. [0:40]
Mathigon
Mathigon: Geometry: Circle and Pi: Degrees and Radians
Rather than dividing a circle into some number of segments (like 360 degrees), mathematicians often prefer to measure angles using the circumference of a unit circle - a circle with radius 1. This way of measuring angles is called...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What's a 360?
In this Cyberchase video segment, Harry tries to snowboard and learns how to measure and identify many common angles.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Conventions
A "convention" is "just the way a thing is done!". This reference material lists some common conventions (notational assumptions) for geometry and trigonometry.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Angles Outside a Circle
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will move the points on the line segments to explore anlge measures outside the circle. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Directions to Hen Rock
The CyberSquad has to deal with angles and distances to locate a treasure chest in this video segment from Cyberchase.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Geometric Representation of Trig Functions
Using similar triangles, a relationship is established between the six trigonometric functions of an angle and simple line segments. These relationships are then confirmed using line segment measurement capabilities of the graphing...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, F Tf Coordinates of Points on a Circle
For this task, students are shown a unit circle in a plane and an angle measured from the x-axis. They must determine the coordinates of the line segment for the angle and answer a question about the sum of the coordinates. The purpose...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sequences of Transformations
Given a description of a sequence of transformations, determine whether it preserves segment length or angle measure. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Isosceles Triangles
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are given an Isosceles triangle and are asked to move the point on the line segment to explore how the angle measure changes. Click learn more to watch a video demonstration and click challenge...