INNOVATIVE LESSON TEMPLATE

Name of the teacher : Bincy Elsa Baby

Standard : VIII.C

Name of the school : Govt.H.S.S Puthoor

Strength :

Name of the subject : Mathematics

Name of the topic

Date

: Sum of the exterior angle

Duration : 45 min

of a polygon.

CURRICULAR STATEMENT
Finding out the sum of the exterior angles of any polygon.

CONTENT ANALYSIS
Term

: Polygon

Fact

: The sum of the exterior angle of any polygon is 360

Concept : Concept of the sum of the exterior angle of a polygon.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The students will be able to,

: recall the idea about polygons.
: describe the peculiarities of polygons.
: interpret the concept of polygons.
: explain the concept of polygons.
: use the above concept in another familiar situation.
: judge the appropriateness of the above concept in a given problem.
: plan new ideas based on the concept.
: perform geometric skills.

PRE-REQUISITES
Pupil knows about polygons, angles around a point and sum of the interior angle around a polygon.

TEACHING LEARNING RESORCES

Slides: Slides containing the result of the sum of the exterior angle of a polygon.
Activity card: Activity card containing questions related to the concept.
Models: Wooden models of triangles.
Chart: Chart for students to paste polygons cut off from the cardboard.

Cardboard, scissors ,eerkil bits, gum, box containing lots.

CLASSROOM INTERACTION PROCEDURE

EXPECTED PUPIL
RESPONSE
INTRODUCTION
Class begins with a poem about polygons,
I am a two dimensional shape.
I am a closed figure.
I have more than two sides.
I have equal number of edges and vertices.
I have no adjacent sides as collinear.
Can you tell who am I ?
Polygon
Then showing different
Students identify the polygons

polygons

using

slide

presentation

and

identify
correctly.

ask

them

to

them.

PRESENTATION
Divide the pupils into groups.
ACTIVITY-1
Giving a chart and a large piece of cardboard. Ask them to make different polygons
doing the activity very
using

the

cardboard,

paste

it

to

the

given

chart

well.

ACTIVITY-2
Giving a box of eerkil bits and an activity card.
Arrange the eerkil bits as in the instructions given below and answer
the following questions in it.
INSTRUCTIONS
Make a triangle as shown below using the eerkil bits and
mark the outer angles.

and

Pupils
name

it.

 Place other three sticks parallel to these and make a smaller

triangle with same angles.
Shrink it a little more like this.
Repeat it until there is no triangle at all.
QUESTIONS
1, What is the sum of the angles marked in the last construction?
360

1,

2, What about the first figure?

Its angle sum is also 360

2,

ACTIVITY-3
Giving three wooden triangles and tell the students to join it using gum and then
answer the questions in the activity card.
1, Write a suitable name for the newly formed polygon?
Pentagon
2,
Measure
Students doing the activities

each

interior

1,
angle

using

protractor?

3, Copy
correctly.

the

polygon

to

paper

and

extent

each

sides

for

making

the

exterior angles?
4, Now find each exterior angle of the polygon?
5, Calculate the sum of the exterior angles of the polygon?
Through discussions and explanations and with the help of teacher, students
determined that for any n sided polygon, sum of the outer angle is 360.Then a slide
was presenting which contain the result of the sum of the exterior angle of a polygon.

Exterior angle of a polygon

The sum of the exterior angle of a polygon is 360
Students reading the slide.

APPLICATION / REVIEW (Group wise competition)

Giving a box of lots which contain some angle measurements. Tell the students
selecting the lots correctly.

Pupil

to select three lots from the box with angle sum 360 and put them in the triangular
box placed on the table. Again select four lots from the box and then five lots from the
box with angle sum 360.Put them in the quadrilateral box and pentagonal box placed
on the table.

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY
All angles in an 18 sided polygon are equal. Find all the outer angles?
The sum of the outer angle of a polygon is twice the sum of the inner angle. How many sides
does it have?
What about the number of sides if the sum of the outer angle is half the sum of the inner
angle?