7.1 Unit Overview

by Michelle Nguyen

By Desmos Classroom

Learning goals: Section 1: Scaled Copies (Lessons 1–5 + Practice Day + Quiz) • Describe how scaling affects lengths, angles, and areas in scaled copies.  • Use scale factors to create and compare scaled copies. Section 2: Scale Drawings (Lessons 6–10 + Practice Day) • Represent distances in the real world using scales and scale drawings. Materials In all of the lessons in this unit, students should have access to their geometry toolkits, which should contain blank paper, tracing paper, graph paper, colored pencils, scissors, a ruler, a protractor, and an index card. Students may not need all (or even any) of these tools to solve a particular problem.