A Year of Geometry

Nick Hershman, nhershman@riverdale.k12.or.us

Fall
• Points, Lines, and Planes (Chapter 1)

 Test: Chapter 1 [September]

• Reasoning and Proof (Chapter 2)

 Project: The uses of Proof

 Test: Chapter 2 [September/October]

• Parallel and Perpendicular Lines (Chapter 3)

 Project: Model Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

 Test [October]

• Congruent Triangles (Chapter 4)

 Project: Triangle Congruence demonstrations: SAS, SSS, ASA, AAS

 Test [October/November]

Cold times
• Relationships in Triangles (Chapter 5)

 Test [November]

• Proportions and Similarity (Chapter 6)

 Project: Photographic analysis of the height of tall buildings in Portland [November/December]

• Right Triangles and Trigonometry (Chapter 7)

 Project What's so Special About Right Triangles?

 Test [December]

• Quadrilaterals (Chapter 8) Skipped for time in 2008-2009

 Test [December/January]

• Transformations (Chapter 9) Skipped for time in 2008-2009

 Project: Art: Tessellations or Vector Analysis

 Test [January/February]

Thawing!
• Circles (Chapter 10)

 Test [February/March]

• Area of Polygons and Circles (Chapter 11)

 Project: Design area formula brochure with an equation editor [April]

• Surface Area (Chapter 12)

 Test [April/May]

• Volume (Chapter 13)

 Project [May/June]

• Algebra/Geometry Review EOY Assessments [June]