Bath School Department 2003
Content Area: Math
Grade: 7

Content Standard: E. Geometry:
Students will understand and apply concepts from geometry.
Common Assessment:
LAD Task, The Plot Thickens
Performance Indicators

Students will be able to:

Essential Elements

(Specific grade level objectives)

Suggested
Performance Activities
Suggested Classroom Assessments
Vocabulary

1. Compare, classify, and draw two dimensional shapes and three dimensional figures.

Classify and compare Triangles, Quadrilaterals, and other polygons by their essential elements using Venn Diagrams and tree chars.

Glencoe:

8-1A Measuring Angles

8-1B Perpendicular Lines

8-2B Sum of the Angles of a Polygon

8-4A Bisecting Angles and Segments

8-4B Constructing Regular Polygons

Glencoe Chapter 8 Test.

equilateral
isosceles
equiangular
congruent
parallel

2. Apply geometric properties to represent and solve real-life problems involving regular and irregular shapes.

Make mathematical arguments about characteristics of similar and congruent shapes.

Use the properties of parallel and perpendicular lines in problem solving.

Toothpick Bridge Project

Designing Your Own House Project.

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surface area
volume
face

3. Use a coordinate system to define and locate position.

Use coordinates to describe simple rotation, symmetry.

Glencoe : Practice Worksheet 7-3

Practice Worksheet 14-4

Glencoe Applications 3-10 City Planning

Glencoe Chapter 8 Test

STAR Math Fish Problem

coordinate
ordered pair
quadrant origin
x-coordinate,
y-coordinate

4. Use the appropriate geometric tools and measurements to draw and construct two and three dimensional figures.

Use protractor, compass, and ruler to construct and measure 2 and 3 dimensional shapes.

Use nets to create three dimensional shapes.

Glencoe: 10-1A Building Three Dimensional Figures

10-4A Introduction to Surface Area of a Cylinder

10-6B Volume of Cylinders

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