Lesson Title: Measuring Angles
Grade level: 5
Lesson Length: 1 hour


Learning Objectives:
1. The student will analyze and measure angles using a protractor.
2. The student will identify angles as right angle, acute angles, and obtuse angles.
3. The student took pictures of right, acute, and obtuse angles and draw right, acute, and obtuse angles on the images.


NETS and EALR Standards:
1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
Standard b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. Students will learn about angles through instruction and guided practice. During independent practice students will be partnered together, given a digital camera and allowed to walk about the school grounds to find angles, and take take pictures of the angles, which is the original works of their expression of one of all three different types of angles with their camera.
2. Communication and Collaboration: Students use digitial media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
Standard a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employting a variety of digital environments and media. Students will take digital pictures with their partners of examples of angles, then they will upload the images and print them to find the angle with a protractor. After they have found the angles, students will copy the digital image into a PowerPoint slide show and create a slide for each image with the found angles and lables. The published works will be shared with their classroom peers.
Standard b. communicate infomration and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. Students will take digital pictures with their partners of examples of angles, then they will upload the images and print them to find the angle with a protractor. After they have found the angles, students will copy the digital image into a PowerPoint slide show and create a slide for each image with the found angles and lables.The published works will be shared with their classroom peers.
3. Reserach and Information Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
Standard d. process data and report results. Students will take pictures of the angles to process the data, the will print out the images to process the data with pencils and a protractor. The students will then report the results on a PowerPoint slide show and communicate information and ideas to their classroom peer audience.

EALR 1 Integration: Students use technology within all content areas to collaborate, communicate, generate innovative ideas, investigate and solve problems.
1.1 Innovate: Demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students will learn about angles through instruction and guided practice. During independent practice students will be partnered together, given a digital camera and allowed to walk about the school grounds to find angles, and take take pictures of the angles, which is the original works of their expression of one of all three different types of angles with their camera.
1.2 Collaborate: Use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively to support individual leaning, and contribute to the learning of others. Students will take digital pictures with their partners of examples of angles, then they will upload the images and print them to find the angle with a protractor. After they have found the angles, students will copy the digital image into a PowerPoint slide show and create a slide for each image with the found angles and lables.The published works will be shared with their classroom peers.

Materials:
1. Digital Camera
2. Protractor
3. Photo Printer
4. Angle Worksheet
5. Angle Inforamtion and Facts

Anticipatory Set: Have a discussion about angles. I will say "Today we are exploring angles, can anyone tell me about angles?" I will allow this to continue for a minute or two, then I will ask "How do people in various professions use angles to complete their work?" allow time for discussion. Then I will ask "How do people use angles in their everyday lives?" allow time for discussion, then I will ask " How do you use angles?" I will allow time for discussion, then introduce the lesson on angles.

Modeling: I will provide information and facts about angles. Then I will practice or model how to find an angle. I will create my own problems as well as complete one on the students worksheets.

Guided Practice: I will complete two problems with the students, we will do the student worksheet problems together.

Independent Practice: Student will complete the worksheets. I will be walking around to help students complete the worksheets and answer questions. Once everyone has completed the worksheets, I will select student partners. I will have higher ability students work with students who have a lower ability level. I will introduce the extention part of the lesson, which is also checking for understanding.

Checking for Understanding: Student will be paired up, as mentioned previously. They will be given a digital camera to walk around school to take pictures of objects that have acute, right and obtuse angles. After students have one picture of each they will come back to the classroom and upload the images, print them out, one for each studnet, and find and draw the angle on the image. After students have found the degree of the angle they will create a PowerPoint slide show with the images and their angles that they will share with their classmates.

Closure: The wrap-up activity will be the slideshows because it will show me what they students have learned. They will be able to see angles all around them everyday.

Assessment Strategy: This slide show will be printed out and placed into each students math portfolio, in addition to the printed image with angles. The student analyzed and measured angles using a protractor on their worksheet and their images. The student identifed angles as right angle, acute angles, and obtuse angles in their worksheets, images and slide show. The student took pictures of right, acute, and obtuse angles and draw right, acute, and obtuse angles on the images.


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