Scope and Sequence Grade 8 • Math Volume 2 (cont.)
Learning Sessions
Subject
Lesson
Skills
• Students will acquire knowledge about engineering in the context of a story about the design process used to create new emojis, which people worldwide use to communicate. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about how the use of emojis may affect communication. • Students will acquire knowledge about two- dimensional shapes, in the context of an article about an offshore wind power plant in the U.S.; • Students will apply the formulas for the circumference and area of a circle to calculate the blade sweeps of wind turbines. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about the motivation of people creating wind turbines. • Students will acquire knowledge about financial literacy and budgeting, in the context of an article about Comic Con, a festival celebrating popular culture; • Students will apply their knowledge to complete a budget for attending Comic Con. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about the student’s favorite fictional character. • Students will acquire knowledge about algebraic operations, in the context of an article about a teenager in Mongolia who has trained an eagle to hunt; • Students will apply the distributive property to write and solve one-variable equations related to the teenager and her eagle. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about the subject of the article.
25 & 26 Science: Engineering
“All About Emojis”
27 & 28 Math: Geometry: Two- Dimensional Shapes
“Wind Power!”
29 & 30 Math: Financial Literacy: Budgets
“Getting Into Character”
31 & 32 Math: Algebra: Number and Operations
“The Eagle Huntress”
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Grade 8 • Math Volume 2
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