Grade 7 Unit Resources
Preparing to Teach
- Unit Preparation
- Planning an Investigation
- Discourse and Collaboration: Teacher Strategies
- Discourse and Collaboration: Supporting Students
- Student Work and Notebooks
- Using Technology
7-1 Shapes and Designs
- Focus Questions
- Scope and Sequence
- What's Problem 1.1 All About?
- Student Work from Shapes and Designs, Problem 2.2: Angle Sums of Any Polygon
- Student Work from Shapes and Designs, Problem 2.3: The Bees Do It
- Using Realize/Dash Activities - Bee Dance Activity, Tessellations, Virtual Polystrips, Quadrilateral Game
- Why do bees build hexagonal honeycombs? - External video about the hidden mathematical rule behind one of nature's most perfect shapes
7-2 Accentuate the Negative
- Focus Questions
- Scope and Sequence
- Using Realize/Dash Activities - Integer Product Game
- Jeopardy-Like Game Show for CMP Classrooms
7-3 Stretching and Shrinking
7-4 Comparing and Scaling
- Focus Questions
- Scope and Sequence
- Student Work from Comparing & Scaling, Problem 1.2: Making Juice
- Student Work from Comparing & Scaling, Problem 2.1: Sharing Pizza
- Shawn Towle demonstrates the CMP Activity Paper Pool
- Using Realize/Dash Activities - Paper Pool
- Arc of Learning
7-5 Moving Straight Ahead
- Focus Questions
- Scope and Sequence
- Using Realize/Dash Activities - Climbing Monkeys
- Arc of Learning
- Problem 2.1: Henri and Emile's Race
- Problem 2.1: Linear Relationships (video)
7-6 What Do You Expect?
7-7 Filling and Wrapping
- Focus Questions
- Scope and Sequence
- Shawn Towle demonstrates the CMP Activity Pouring and Filling
- Using Realize/Dash Activities -Virtual Box, Areas and Perimeters of Shapes and Images, Virtual Cylinder, Pouring and Filling