Sample Lessons – Grade 7

Sample Lessons from Proportional Reasoning Unit of Study:

Making Lemonade: By using different ratios to make and taste-test lemonade, students will explain the concept of ratios and use the proportional relationship with fractions.

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Making Lemonade

Proportional Lab: Students will do a series of activities and record their work as a table and as a graph. They will compare and contrast proportional and non-proportional experiments to come to an initial conceptual understanding of “proportional.”

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Proportional Lab

Four Methods to Solve Proportions: Students will compare and contrast methods to use to solve problems involving proportional relationships.

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Four Methods to Solve Proportions