I work at an awesome school that will print out half size posters for teachers, so I asked the 2 awesome librarians at my school to print me out the following graphic organizer in half-size poster form. Last year, I had students complete the following graphic organizer in their notebook next to their foldable. This year, I had students break up into groups of 2 and create their own circle and name/draw the following vocabulary terms (center, radius, diameter, chord, tangent, and secant).
I will have students create this poster again next year (instead of putting in their INB) because it helped so many of my students develop a deep circles vocabulary background and allowed students to make the necessary vocabulary connections (especially true for my special education and ELL students). Of course, a lot of my students went above and beyond of what was expected and decided to color code their circle because they know I like "pretty things" and wanted me to hang theirs up in my classroom.
Note: I told students that they CANNOT use the same picture as our circle basics graphic organizer. (You can find the foldable here: Circle Basics Unit)
You can find these circles graphic organizer when you Click Here
Circle base graphic organizers are venn diagrams. The set theory base illustrations. You can find some examples of venn diagrams in the diagram community of Creately.
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