Area of a Circle

CT’s Signature:
Name: Gaby De Jesus Cooperating Teacher: Mr. Durand
Date: February 22, 2018 Time: 10:34 to 11:24am Subject/Class/Period: Math 7, Period 4
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES TO MEET GOALS:
Students will be able to identify the radius, diameter, and circumference of a circle.
Students will be able to understand where the formula for the area of a circle comes from.
Students will be able to calculate the area of a circle.
COMMON CORE STANDARD (General Objectives):
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.G.B.4
Know the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve
problems; give an informal derivation of the relationship between the circumference and area
of a circle.
MOTIVATIONAL TECHNIQUES:
Use of circle cutout
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Circle cutout, calculator, note paper, writing utensils, colored pencils, whiteboard and markers,
textbook
PROCEDURE FOR THE LESSON:
 Students walk in with warm up problem on the board and pick up calculator on the way
to their seats
 Warm up problem (5 min)
o Hand out circles and colored pencils
o Also tell students to take out blank sheet of paper
 Review radius, diameter, and circumference of a circle by having them label each on their
circles using different colored pencils (5 min)
 Introduce formula for area of a circle and show derivation (10 min)
 Have students shade other side of circle and write formula inside (1 min)
 Do two examples of finding area of circle with students (4 min)
 Have students do two examples on their own (5 min)
 Give students time to work on assignment and ask independent questions (13 min)
 Clean up (2 min)
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE:
Area, circumference, diameter, radius, pi
ASSESSMENT METHODS:
Students will complete the in class examples. Students will complete the following assignment
pg. 540 #3,4,5,8,9,11,13,14,18,19 Challenge problems #20-22
EVALUATION OF FIELD EXPERIENCE STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE:
This lesson went very well, and it helped me to learn that it is okay to challenge students in a
lesson because it is likely that some, if not all, will rise to it. Prior to the lesson, I was not sure
how well my students were going to understand when I showed them where the formula for the
area of the circle comes from. However, after taking a thumbs up/thumbs down rating, most
students seemed to have somewhat comprehended the derivation. Otherwise, the students
showed a good understanding of how to calculate areas of circles, and they liked the circle cutout
they were given to label. Next time, I would make sure to put more emphasis on the difference
between finding the area when given a radius versus finding the area when given a diameter.
This is one thing some students seemed to mix up, so some additional clarification would have
been beneficial. I loved this lesson, and it is definitely one I would use again.