Area and Surface Area

Grades: 6th Grade

• Overview

• 6.1 Unit Overview

• Pre-Unit

• Getting to Know Each Other
• 6.1 Pre-Unit Check

• Sub-Unit 1: Area

  Students develop strategies for calculating the areas of parallelograms, triangles, and polygons, including generalizing and using formulas.

• Shapes on a Plane
• Letters
• Exploring Parallelograms, Part 1
• Exploring Parallelograms, Part 2
• Off the Grid, Part 1
• Exploring Triangles
• Triangles and Parallelograms
• Off the Grid, Part 2
• Pile of Polygons
• 6.1 Practice Day 1
• 6.1 Sub-Unit Quiz

• Sub-Unit 2: Surface Area

  Students make connections between three-dimensional polyhedra and the nets that represent them, then use those nets to calculate the surface area.

• Renata's Stickers
• Plenty of Polyhedra
• Nothing But Nets
• Face Value
• Take It To Go
• 6.1 Practice Day 2

• End-Unit

• 6.1 End-of-Unit Assessments

• Resources

• 6.1 Additional Practice
• 6.1 Show What You Knows

• Differentiation and Personalized Learning

• 6.1 Differentiation and Personalized Learning