Difference between revisions of "Circumference of a circle"

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Measuring circumference to understand it as the perimeter of the shape.

Objectives

Circumference is the outer boundary of a circle.
It is equivalent to perimeter.

Estimated Time

10 minutes.

Prerequisites/Instructions, prior preparations, if any

Prior knowledge of points, lines and line segments, formation of a circle.

Materials/ Resources needed

Non digital: White paper, compass and colour pencils

Process (How to do the activity)

Instructions to the teachers:

Ask the children to draw circles.

Instructions for the students

Colour circumference by fitting small colour pencil in compass itself.

Evaluation

Observe for the skill in using compass and drawing the circle.

Is the distance between the centre of the circle and its circumference constant ?
What is the distance between the center of a circle and its circumference called?

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-Brief blurb describing what the activity.  If this has been borrowed from some external web site (for example, a non OER or OER site which had this idea and based on which the activity was developed)
 === Objectives ===
-Content objectives  - what content areas
+#Circumference is the outer boundary of a circle.
+#It is equivalent to perimeter.
-Skill objectives - what specific skills
-Classroom objectives - to demo peer learning, to make a classroom resource, etc -
-All these kinds of objectives need not be there for every activity.  And no need to list them as different headings.  This is only for our reference when we are developing activities.
 ===Estimated Time===
+minutes.
 === Prerequisites/Instructions, prior preparations, if any ===
+Prior knowledge of points, lines and line segments, formation of a circle.
 ===Materials/ Resources needed===
+Non digital: White paper, compass and colour pencils
 ===Process (How to do the activity)===
-How to do the different steps of the activity?
+Instructions to the teachers:
+#Ask the children to draw circles.
-What kinds of questions you can ask for that activity
+Instructions for the students
+#Colour circumference by fitting small colour pencil in compass itself.
-What are the student follow-up activities/ questions you can give?
+*Evaluation
+# Observe for the skill in using compass and drawing the circle.
-Categories:  (Subject) (Topic) (Sub-concept/topic) (Class 6) (Resource format)
+#Is the distance between the centre of the circle and its circumference constant ?
+#What is the distance between the center of a circle and its circumference called?
-Example -  (Mathematics) (Triangle) (Area) (Perimeter) (Class 6) (Class 8) (Geogebra) (Video)
+[[Category:Circles]]