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🧮 7th Grade · Math7.G.A.3Unit 6: Angles, circles, area & volume

Cross sections

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🎯 Objective: Students describe cross sections of prisms and pyramids.

Lesson outline

  1. Slice clay shapes.
  2. Sketch sections.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: one cross section.

Lesson 5 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

7.G.A.3

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 7 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use angle relationships to find unknowns
  • Find circumference and area of circles
  • Solve surface area and volume problems

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Angles, circles, area & volume”

  1. Angle relationships
  2. Drawing triangles
  3. Circumference
  4. Area of circles
  5. Cross sections
  6. Surface area and volume

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