Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Learning Ratios & Proportions Through Scale Drawings
Website which strengthens the conceptual connection between scale drawings and ratios through an activity lesson.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpreting Scale Drawings
Students practice interpreting scale models, receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify Scale Copies
In these practice problems, students will identify scale copies.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Corresponding Sides and Points
Practice with corresponding sides and points in scale drawings.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Proportions to Find Scale Ratios
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students find a scale, ratio, or proportion given actual and scale dimensions. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Math Challenges for Families
Students, teachers, and parents alike will enjoy this challenging math site. It contains a clever brain teaser section plus creative problems related to algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and probability. A Spanish...
Microsoft
Microsoft: Choosing an Appropriate Drawing Scale
Drawing objects using a scale. Information on how to choose the right size.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Proportions to Find Dimensions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson studnets find actual or scale dimensions using a given scale, ratio, or proportion. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Shaping the Future
Students will utilize new found knowledge of architectural design and engineering to apply math and science skills in building a structure. By using interactive websites, they will create scale drawing plans and design and engineer a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Dilation in the Coordinate Plane
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students how to draw dilated figures in the coordinate plane and use dilated figures in the coordinate plane to find scale factors. Students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Movin' on Up"
Students will use their knowledge of scale factor to enlarge a picture to scale. They will then use PhotoStory to create a collage of their pictures. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
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Other
Achieve: Miniature Golf Design Task [Pdf]
In this task students are asked to combine numerous skills to create a miniature golf hole. Students create a scale drawing of the hole, calculate the area of the hole and determine the percentage of total area used. In addition,...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Real Life, Real World Activity Architecture
Architects and Interior Designers use scale drawings that represent the house or room they are designing. This activity uses Cabri Jr. Geometry software to create a scale drawing with dilations.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Dance Performance: Position on a Map
This interactive website allows students to practice their map skills including scale factors on a map.
NASA
Nasa: Earth, Moon and Mars Balloons
In this lesson, students will construct a scale model of the Earth-Moon-Mars system.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Circles All Around Us
For this lesson, students will estimate several dimensions of circles in everyday objects. Students will use the metric and customary systems for their estimations. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Search the Perimeter and Secure the Area
This lesson will not only help students compare and contrast the concepts of area and perimeter, but it will also move toward the concept that area is maximized while minimizing perimeter with a square.