Measuring Circles

Grades: 7th Grade

• Overview

• 7.3 Unit Overview

• Pre-Unit

• 7.3 Pre-Unit Check

• Sub-Unit 1: Circumference of a Circle

  Students generate characteristics that define a circle and learn the terms radius and diameter to describe parts of circles. They make sense of the relationship between the diameter of a circle and its circumference,

• Toothpicks
• Is It a Circle?
• Measuring Around
• Perimeter Challenges
• 7.3 Practice Day 1
• 7.3 Sub-Unit Quiz

• Sub-Unit 2: Area of a Circle

  Students recognize that the relationships between the radius and area of a circle is not proportional. They explain and use the formula for the area of a circle to solve problems.

• Area Strategies
• Radius Squares
• Circle Area
• Why Pi?
• Area Challenges
• Circle vs. Square
• 7.3 Practice Day 2

• End-Unit

• 7.3 End-of-Unit Assessments

• Resources

• 7.3 Lesson Practice
• 7.3 Additional Practice
• 7.3 Show What You Knows

• Differentiation and Personalized Learning

• 7.3 Differentiation and Personalized Learning