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🧮 7th Grade · Math7.G.A.1Unit 1: Scale drawings

Scale drawings and maps

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🎯 Objective: Students use a scale to find actual distances.

Lesson outline

  1. Map of a national park.
  2. Practice.
  3. Problems.
  4. Exit: 3 in. on a 1 in. = 20 mi map.

Lesson 2 of 4 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.1

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use scale factors to compute lengths and areas
  • Reproduce a drawing at a different scale

✅ 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 “Scale drawings”

  1. Scaled copies
  2. Scale drawings and maps
  3. Area in scaled copies
  4. Create a scale drawing

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