Allison Kerley

TAG Unit 6 Week Overview

Unit Title: Geometry Is All Around Me
Unit EQ: Where can I find Geometry in the world around me?
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Week 1
Essential
Question

How can I
improve my
personal skill
level for
classifying
angles?

TAG
Strategy

Graduated
Difficulty
Lesson

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Where can I find

angles in the
world around me?

How can I create a

metaphor to help
me better
understand the
Quadrilateral
Hierarchy?

How can I classify

quadrilaterals and
support my
reasoning with
evidence?

Week 5
How can we
make roads
safer?

Metaphorical
Expression
Lesson

Creative
Problem
Solving
Lesson

TAG
Higher Order
Standard and Critical
s
Thinking Skills
4. Make and
evaluate
decisions using
criteria

Creative
Thinking &
Creative
Problem Solving
Skills (CPS)
7. The student
uses analogies,
metaphors, and/or
models to explain
complex concepts.

Creative
Thinking &
Creative
Problem
Solving Skills
3. The student
incorporates
brainstorming
and other ideagenerating
techniques to
solve problems
or create new
products.

CC
MGSE4.G.1 Draw points, lines, line
Standard segments, rays, angles (right, acute,
s

MGSE4.G.2 Classify two-dimensional

figures based on the presence or

ELACC4W1
Write opinion
pieces on topics

Week 6
How can
geometry help a
self-driving car
safely navigate
roads?

MGSE4.G.1 and
MGSE4.G.2

obtuse), and perpendicular and

parallel lines. Identify these in two
dimensional figures.

Week 1
Lesson
Summar
y

After selfassessing their

skill level for
classifying
angles, students
will choose an
activity that will
appropriately
challenge them.

Links to 1. Decide Sheet

Resource 2. Discussion
s
Questions /
Challenges
Slides

Week 2

absence of parallel or perpendicular

lines, or the presence or absence of
angles of a specified size. Recognize
right triangles as a category, and
identify right angles.

or texts,
supporting a
point of view
with reasons.

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Students will...
1. Review acute,
right, obtuse
using body
movements with
partner.
2. Scavenger
hunt around
school and
outside. Look for
angles in real
world and take
pictures.
3. Upload
pictures and
classify them on
linoit graphic
organizer.
4. View class
linoit page and
argue whether
each picture is in
the correct
category.

Students will
create an analogy
between the
Quadrilateral
Hierarchy and a
family tree, then
come up with their
own metaphor.

Students will
1. Review
Quadrilateral
Hierarchy with
Pass the Paper
activity (students
add on to the
persons paper
before them to
complete
hierarchy).
2. Complete
Classifying 2dimensional
figures organizer
with partner.
3. Table talk about
Quadrilateral
Argument (Who is
correct? Why?)
4. Create a skit
similar to
Quadrilateral
Argument.
Perform.

Students will be
presented with
an ethical
dilemma about
the safety of
self-driving cars,
then use use
creative
problem-solving
to come up with
a solution.

Last week,
students
problem solved
to come up with
their own
solution to car
accidents.
Today, they will
use their
knowledge of
Geometry to
design a testing
facility for selfdriving cars and
program a
Sphero to
navigate the
track. All steps
and rubrics for
this PBL can be
found on my
class website.

1. Acute, Right,
Obtuse Linoit
Page

1. Quadrilateral
Hierarchy Anchor
Chart

1. Classifying 2Dimensional
Figures Organizer
2. Quadrilateral
Argument

1. Creative
Problem Solving
Packet

1. Self-driving
car PBL website
2. Leadership
self-assessment
3. Group project

3. GRAPE
Performance
Task & Rubric

self-assessment