Proportional and Linear Relationships

Grades: 8th Grade

• Overview

• 8.3 Unit Overview

• Pre-Unit

• 8.3 Pre-Unit Check

• Sub-Unit 1: Proportionality Revisited

  Students revisit representations of proportional relationships.

• Turtle Time Trials
• Water Tank
• Proportional Posters

• Sub-Unit 2: Linear Relationships

  Students are introduced to linear relationships that are not proportional. They create and connect representations, including interpreting slope, vertical intercept, and horizontal intercept of linear relationships in context.

• Flags
• Water Cooler
• Ups and Downs
• Stacking Cups
• Translations
• 8.3 Practice Day 1
• 8.3 Sub-Unit Quiz

• Sub-Unit 3: Linear Equations and Points

  Students generate a strategy to calculate the slope of a line through two given points and write equations for diagonal, vertical, and horizontal lines.

• Landing Planes
• Coin Capture
• Why Intercepts?
• Solutions
• Pennies and Quarters
• 8.3 Practice Day 2

• End-Unit

• 8.3 End-of-Unit Assessments

• Resources

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

• Differentiation and Personalized Learning

• 8.3 Differentiation and Personalized Learning