8th+grade+lesson+plans

= 8th grade Focus Areas and Objectives: =

Choose the objectives and suggested activities that best fit the needs of your students.


 * OPERATIONS WITH INTEGERS**
 * Pre- and Post-Assessment**
 * Students will be able to model, represent, and apply the rules of adding and subtracting integers by using integer counters and by computing both operations with integers.
 * [[file:Modeling Addition and Subtraction.pdf]]
 * [[file:modeling adding and subtracting integers.doc]]
 * [[file:4 Corners and Teach and Understand Lesson.pdf]]
 * [[file:adding integers 4 corners activity.doc]]
 * [[file:adding integers teach and understand.doc]]
 * Students will be able to model, represent, and apply the rules of multiplication and division by using integers counters and by computing both operations with integers.
 * [[file:Modeling Multiplication and Division.pdf]]
 * [[file:modeling multiplying and dividing integers.doc]]
 * Students will be able to solve real-world mathematical problems involving the four operations.
 * [[file:Check writing activity.pdf]]
 * EXTENSION: Modeling all four operation with rational numbers.
 * [[file:Modeling Fraction and Decimal Operations.pdf]]


 * SOLVING EQUATIONS**
 * Pre- and Post-Assessment**
 * Students will be able to model and solve one-step equations by using algebra tiles and by using inverse operations.
 * [[file:Modeling Integer Equations.pdf]]
 * [[file:modelingonestepequations.doc]]
 * [[file:fix& learn1stepequations.doc]]
 * Students will be able to solve real-world mathematical problems involving one-step equations.
 * [[file:Real World Onestep equations.docx]]
 * EXTENSION: Two-step equations.
 * [[file:Modeling Two Step Equations.pdf]]
 * [[file:Two Step Equations CRA.pdf]]
 * [[file:modelingtwostepequations.doc]]
 * [[file:fix& learn2stepequations.doc]]
 * [[file:Problem Solving - 2-step equations.doc]]
 * [[file:Applying 2 step eqns.doc]]


 * GEOMETRY**
 * Pre- and Post-Assessment**
 * Students will be able to identify and know the properties of basic geometric shapes, including but not limited to: lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons.
 * [[file:Basics of Geometry Lesson.docx]]
 * [[file:Basics of Geometry Vocab.doc]]
 * [[file:Geometry Ready to go on.pdf]]
 * Students will be able to use the formulas for area and circumference to solve real-world mathematical problems.
 * [[file:Exploring Perimeter Circumference and Area.pdf]]
 * [[file:Spaghetti and Meatballs for All.pdf]]
 * [[file:AREA measuringshapesto find area.doc]]
 * [[file:Area & Perimeter Activity Designing a Park]]
 * [[file:Area and perimeter activity.doc]]
 * [[file:area of plane shapes computer assign.doc]]
 * Students will be able to use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles to write and solve simple equations for an unknown angle in a figure.
 * [[file:Exploring Complementary and Supplementary Angles.pdf]]
 * [[file:Problem solving with Angles.pdf]]
 * Students will be able to solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures, including reproducing a scale drawing at a different scale.
 * [[file:Math Map lesson.docx]]
 * [[file:MATH MAP.doc]]
 * Students will be able to use proportional relationships to find missing lengths in similar figures.
 * [[file:Making Similar Figures.pdf]]
 * [[file:measuringshadowslessonplan.doc]]
 * [[file:measuring shadows activity.doc]]
 * [[file:measuringshadows.doc]] in case its a rainy day
 * EXTENSION: Constructions and Tessellations
 * [[file:Constructions.pdf]]
 * [[file:Creating Tessellations.pdf]]


 * GRAPHING**
 * Pre- and Post-Assessment**
 * Students will be able to find and position pairs of integers and other rational numbers on a coordinate plane.
 * [[file:Create your own Connect-a-dot Picture using Coordinates.doc]]
 * [[file:Coordinate Picture Graphs.doc]]
 * Students will be able to related a graph to a series of events and interpret the steepness of the line as a rate.
 * [[file:Relating Graphs to Events.pdf]]