ALEX Learning Activity

  

Animating Angles

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  This learning activity provided by:  
Author: Ginger Boyd
System:Geneva County
School:Samson Middle School
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 1641
Title:
Animating Angles
Digital Tool/Resource:
ChatterPix Kids
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

ChatterPix Kids is a fun, kid friendly app for the iPad and iPhone that can be used to enhance a geometry lesson on angles. Students will choose an angle (right, straight, obtuse, or acute), draw the angle on the graph, color it.  Students will identify a real-world object with the same angle attributes, take a picture, and draw a line on the picture for a mouth. Then, students will record their voice giving the measurement of their angle and relate their angle to one real-world object identifying common attributes such as; angle size, side length, side relationships. In this activity, students can work collaboratively in pairs or alone.

This learning activity was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.
  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 4
27. Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines, and identify these in two-dimensional figures.
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Describe the characteristics of a given figure.
    Example: An obtuse angle is described as two rays that meet at a point called a vertex with an angle measure greater than 90 degrees.
  • Draw a given figure correctly using a variety of tools.

    • Example: Use a ruler, paper, and pencil to draw two points and connect them to create a line segment.
  • Identify the given figures in two-dimensional shapes.

    • Example: Given a rectangle ABCD, identify that angle ABC is a right angle and that lines AB and CD are parallel.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Point
  • Line
  • Line segment
  • Ray
  • Right angle
  • Acute angle
  • Obtuse angle
  • Perpendicular lines
  • Parallel lines
  • Two dimensional figure
  • Vertex
  • Angle measure
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • defining characteristics of geometric figures, such as points, lines, line segments, angles (right, acute, and obtuse), parallel lines, and perpendicular lines.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse).
  • Draw parallel and perpendicular lines.
  • Identify points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, parallel lines, and perpendicular lines in two-dimensional figures.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • points, lines, line segments, angles (right, acute, and obtuse), parallel lines, and perpendicular lines are defining characteristics of two dimensional shapes.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.4.27.1: Define points, lines, line segments, rays, right angle, acute angle, obtuse angle, perpendicular lines, and parallel lines.
M.4.27.2: Define two-dimensional figure.
M.4.27.3: Recognize one-dimensional points, lines, and line segments.
M.4.27.4: Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Recall the vocabulary of shapes (labels, sides, faces, vertices, etc.).
  • Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes such as a given number of angles.
  • Build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
  • Sort shapes into categories.
  • Define side, angle, face, closed, and open.
  • Use vocabulary related to shape attributes.
    Examples: sides, angles, face, closed, open.
  • Trace shapes.
  • Sort triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
  • Explore triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.4.27 Recognize parallel lines, intersecting lines, and angles (right, acute, obtuse).
Learning Objectives:

After this learning activity, the students will be able to...

  • draw an angle (right, acute, obtuse, or straight).

  • relate the angle to a real-world object.
  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:

  1. Divide students into collaborative groups.

  2. Students will choose the type of angle they wish to animate (straight, obtuse, right, or acute).

  3. Using the graph paper and a protractor, the students will draw a picture of the angle they chose and color it using the markers or crayons.

  4. Have students tour the school to locate/identify a real-world object with similar angle attributes as their drawing, such as angle size, side length, side relationships.

  5. Students will then take a picture of the real-world object related to the sketched angle using their iPad or iPhone and the ChatterPix Kids app.

  6. The students will draw a line across their angles on ChatterPix Kids app using their finger to make a mouth.

  7. They can then record their voice for 30 seconds. They will briefly give the name of their angle and identify the real-world object they located with the same angle attributes such as; angle size, side length, side relationships.

  8. Students will share their ChatterPix with the class.
Assessment Strategies:

The teacher can assess the students using a rubric.

Evaluate the ChatterPix picture to determine if students were able to:

  • draw an angle (right, acute, obtuse, or straight).

  • relate the angle to a real-world object.
Advanced Preparation:

If the teacher is not familiar with the ChatterPix Kids, he or she might want to take the time to play with the app before class time.

Teacher Preparation:  

Place the students in pairs with one internet connected iPad or iPhone for each pair of students, distribute a sheet of graph paper (one for each pair of students), markers or crayons.  

Set aside time to walk around the school to locate angles.
Variation Tips (optional):

This activity can be completed individually, as partners, or in small groups.
Notes or Recommendations (optional):
 
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