Exploring Dilations NOTES & PRACTICE
Teach students to identify and apply dilations (scale factor enlargement/reduction) of geometric figures on the coordinate plane, and to determine scale factor from before/after coordinates.
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Teach students to identify and apply dilations (scale factor enlargement/reduction) of geometric figures on the coordinate plane, and to determine scale factor from before/after coordinates.
Teach and then test the proof of the Pythagorean theorem and its converse (CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.6), intended for use after an introductory hands-on activity.
Complete varied task-card prompts: analyze/describe listened music (mood, elements, dynamics/tempo/melody/texture/timbre), compare two versions of a song via Venn diagram, draw a picture inspired by music, write a letter to a composer, identify errors in and improve a written composition, identify intervals, transpose a melody to G…
The Task Cards: Movies Vocabulary - ESL Speaking Questions resource will give your students great English speaking and writing practice as they incorporate movie vocabulary into their games . These task cards can be incorporated in many ways. They can be played as a SCOOT game, used as an exit ticket and so much more. A handout for 9…
Gives ESL/EFL teen learners a reading-comprehension and essay-writing practice activity built around an informational passage on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
Teach and assess the Exterior Angle Theorem for triangles (that an exterior angle equals the sum of the two remote interior angles), partially addressing CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.A.5.
Guided notes and practice for 8th-grade geometry students on sequences of transformations (reflections, rotations, translations, dilations) and their effect on congruence/similarity.
Students read a real-world word problem on each of 35 task cards, set up and solve a system of two equations, and record each answer on a recording sheet.
Read a writing prompt and accompanying nonfiction texts, fill in Pixanotes guided notes (at varying levels of scaffolding, from fully pre-printed to fill-in-the-blank), play a related game, and draft an informative essay.
Gives ESL/EFL teen learners a reading-comprehension and essay-writing practice activity built around an informational passage on the ecological importance of bees and their population decline.
Introduction to Solving for Y - Digital Task Cards Google Classroom educators, the Solving for Y - Digital Task Cards offer a powerful tool for enhancing students' abilities to understand and solve linear equations. Specifically designed for middle-school learners, it's appropriate for 8th and 9th graders taking Algebra. As a…
Guided notes and practice on constructing and interpreting two-way tables and relative frequencies for bivariate categorical data, aligned to CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.SP.A.4.
Guided notes and practice teaching students to identify, calculate, and interpret a line of best fit for scatter plots, meeting CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.SP.A.2/A.3.
Teach students to identify and apply rotations of geometric figures about the origin (90 degrees clockwise, 90 degrees counter-clockwise, and 180 degrees) on the coordinate plane, and to derive the coordinate rule for each rotation type.
Gives ESL/EFL teen learners a reading-comprehension and essay-writing practice activity built around an informational passage on what conspiracy theories are and why they spread.
Teach students to identify and apply reflections of geometric figures across the x-axis and y-axis on the coordinate plane, and to derive the coordinate rule for each reflection type.
Teach and practice describing qualitative relationships between two variables from a graph (increasing/decreasing/constant, matching real-world scenarios to graph shapes), aligned to CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.F.B.5.
Guided notes and practice problems introducing angle of elevation and depression concepts in trigonometry.
Scaffolded (fill-in-the-blank) guided notes and practice teaching angles in standard position, coterminal angles, and reference angles in trigonometry.
Gives ESL/EFL teen learners a reading-comprehension and essay-writing practice activity built around an informational passage on the history and institutions of the European Union.
A notes-and-practice resource teaching 8th grade students to apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points on a coordinate grid, per CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.8.
Use Parent Power reference material on measurement and time as scaffolds, then complete activity sheets on perimeter, area (including triangles), circumference, liters/milliliters, kilograms/grams, volume, telling time, calendars, timetables, range/mode/median/mean, bar and line graphs, and Venn diagrams; check work…
Math notes-and-practice packet teaching how to identify characteristics of linear equations from graphs, addressing CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.EE.B.6 and 8.F.B.5.
Provide task-card style practice applying the Pythagorean theorem, including finding side lengths, real-world/3D applications, and distance on a coordinate grid (CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.6-8).