Introducing angles

A complete lesson designed to first introduce the concept of angle. The lesson is very interactive, with lots of discussion tasks and no worksheets!

Activities included:

Starter:
A link to a short video of slopestyle footage, to get pupils interested. The athlete does a lot of rotations and the commentary is relevant but amusing. The video is revisited at the end of the lesson, when pupils can hopefully understand it better!

Main:

• Highly visual slides, activities and discussion points to introduce the concepts of angle as turn, angle between 2 lines, and different types of angle. Includes questions in real-life contexts to get pupils thinking.
• A fun, competitive angle estimation game, where pupils compete in pairs to give the best estimate of given angles.
• A link to an excellent video about why mathematicians think 360 degrees was chosen for a full turn. Could be followed up with a few related questions if there is time. (eg can you list all the factors of 360?)

Plenary:
Pupils re-watch the slopstyle video, and are then prompted to try to decipher some of the ridiculous names for the jumps (eg backside triple cork 1440…)

Includes slide notes with suggestions on tips for use, key questions and extension tasks.

No printing required for this one!

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