I use the following materials for my unit on angles. Scouring the internet to put these items together to engage your students can be a pain. Hopefully, if you’re a 5th grade teacher, this can be your one-stop-shop. I’ve listed the online resources that I use in my classroom (in the order that I use them) below.
Triggering Prior Knowledge/Review
Before the start of our unit on angles, I ask students to label two pages in their notebooks “Angle Review”. We tape this table(pictured right) onto the second page. For homework, students review the Powerpoint (posted to Kidblog), copy the definitons and angle from Slide 2, and complete the table from Slide 3 of the Powerpoint.
Here is a fun video I like to share to kick off the unit. The kids love it!
Online Practice/Games
Measuring Angles
Primary focus: Measuring Angles with a Protractor
Math Playground has designed a program that allows students to practice using a protractor and measuring angles online. Click here or on the image to try it out yourself. I particularly like that students are given immediate feedback and are able to remeasure and correct their answers. I use this activity along with the others listed in this section at a math station for extra practice after our first lesson in the angles unit.
Whenever searching for good math games for practice, you come upon websites or posts that include several games, right? But it’s a crapshoot as to whether they actually work or not. Then you have to test them out yourself to see if they are relevant to your grade. As you click on the link, you’re probably also thinking, please don’t be a dead link or inactive game. Well, here are some tried-and-true area and perimeter math games that are relevant to grades 3-5. I use them to review and trigger prior knowledge before beginning our 5th grade area and perimeter unit. I don’t like games that don’t address that area must be squared, so if the game omits that important factor then it is not included here.
Perimeter Shape Game – Easy, short review that requires students to shoot shapes with a given perimeter. There are a total of 4 problems. Instructionally most appropriate for grade 3, but good, quick review for upper grades.
Interactive Shape Explorer – Excellent 5th grade review tool. Using square units, this interactive program allows students to calculate area and perimeter and check their answers. If an answer is incorrect, students can resubmit an answer. This program also includes composite shapes which is appropriate for 5th grade review. If you’d prefer composite shapes be omitted, you can check a box so only rectangular shapes are included.
Find the Area and Perimeter of Rectangles – An interactive math lesson from Math Playground. Includes 10 questions that require the student to measure the length and width and calculate the area and perimeter. Provides immediately feedback; students click “Check Answers” and find out if their answer is correct before moving on to the next problem. If you’d like students to submit paper answers to you, retry incorrect answers, or add them to math notebooks click HERE for a worksheet that I use for my students.
Perimeter and Area Tutorial and Practice– Perfect 5th grade practice and review. At the start, you choose whether to focus on area or perimeter. Tutorials are given at the start of each level. I ask students to begin at level 1 and progress through level 3. This program includes composite shapes. If you’re a 5th grade teacher and you only feel like clicking through one link, this is the one.
Help me out. If you notice that a game is no longer working, please notify me via comments or email. I’d like to keep this updated so it is a helpful teacher resource.
(pictured right) onto the second page. For homework, students review the Powerpoint (posted to Kidblog), copy the definitons and angle from Slide 2, and complete the table from Slide 3 of the Powerpoint.
5th Grade Files 