Date: November 2, 2004 Subject: Math Grade: 4th

I. OBJECTIVES:

Students will be able to identify and label acute, obtuse and right angles within a picture.

II. MATERIALS:

Kid Pix

Photographs (taken by students using digital cameras)

Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE):

M.T.E. 04.10 Identify right angles and compare angles to right angles.

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS):

1. Use keyboards and other common input and output devices (including adaptive devices when necessary) efficiently and effectively.

5. Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, Web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

8. Use technology resources (e.g., calculators, data collection probes, videos, educational software) for problem solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities>

III. PROCEDURE:

a. Purpose:

To give students practice identifying angles. The Kid Pix software allows the students to easily manipulate the pictures.

b. Anticipatory Set:

The teacher will remind the students of the pictures they took while on the field trip to Greenfield Village. The teacher will tell them that they will be using those pictures to find angles.

c. Questions to check for understanding:

What does a right angle look like? Can you show me with your hand?

Is an acute angle larger or smaller than a right angle? (Smaller)

What do we call an angle that is larger than a right angle? (Obtuse)

d. Modeling Activity:

Have the students choose a picture from the ones taken on the field trip. They will need to import the picture into the Kid Pix program.

Once the picture is in the program, the students will use the drawing tool to outline the three different angles within the picture.

When all angles are found, the students can label them using the text tool.

Projects will then be saved to a folder where the teacher can access and grade them.

e. Guided and Independent Practice:

The students will work on their projects independently. The teacher will circulate to be certain students are using the program properly.

f. Closure Activity:

The teacher will review volunteer students' pictures on the projector to show the others what they found. The students will explain their angles.

IV. ASSESSMENT OF OBJECTIVES:

The teacher will circulate to see if the students can use the Kid Pix program effectively.

The teacher will observe that the children are identifying the angles correctly.