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
- CMP Lesson Structure - Launch, Explore, Summary
- Assessments in CMP
- Meeting Students' Needs, General Support
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
- Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
7-2 Accentuate the Negative
- Focus Questions
- Scope and Sequence
- Using Realize/Dash Activities - Integer Product Game
- Jeopardy-Like Game Show for CMP Classrooms
- Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
- Problem 1.4 Summary - In the Chips
- Problem 2.1 Launch - Extending Addition to Rational Numbers
- Problem 2.1 Explore - Extending Addition to Rational Numbers
- Problem 2.1 Summary - Extending Addition to Rational Numbers
- Problem 2.4 Launch - Fact Families
- Problem 4.2 Launch - The Distributive Property
- Meeting Students' Needs
7-3 Stretching and Shrinking
- Focus Questions
- Scope and Sequence
- Using Realize/Dash Activities - Mug Wumps
- Arc of Learning
- Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
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
- Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
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)
- Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
7-6 What Do You Expect?
- Focus Questions
- Scope and Sequence
- Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
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
- Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos