Jim Dougherty

  • IM / Open Up Grade 6
    • Grade 6: Unit 1 Area and Surface Area
    • Grade 6: Unit 2 Introducing Ratios
    • Grade 6: Unit 3 Unit Rates and Percentages
    • Grade 6: Unit 4 Dividing Fractions
    • Grade 6: Unit 5 Arithmetic in Base Ten
    • Grade 6: Unit 6 Expressions and Equations
    • Grade 6: Unit 7 Rational Numbers
    • Grade 6: Unit 8 Data Sets and Distributions
    • Grade 6: Unit 9  Putting it All Together
  • IM / Open Up Grade 7
    • Grade 7: Unit 1 Scale Drawings
    • Grade 7: Unit 2 Introducing Proportional Relationships
    • Grade 7: Unit 3 Measuring Circles
    • Grade 7: Unit 4 Proportional Relationships and Percentages
    • Grade 7: Unit 5 Rational Number Arithmetic
    • Grade 7: Unit 6 Expressions, Equations and Inequalities
    • Grade 7: Unit 7 Angles, Triangles, and Prisms
    • Grade 7: Unit 8 Probability and Sampling
    • Grade 7: Unit 9 Putting it All Together
  • IM / Open Up Grade 8
    • Grade 8: Unit 1 Rigid Transformations and Congruence
    • Grade 8: Unit 2 Dilations, Similarity, and Introducing Slope
    • Grade 8: Unit 3 Linear Relationships
    • Grade 8: Unit 4 Linear Equations and Linear Systems
    • Grade 8: Unit 5 Functions and Volume
    • Grade 8: Unit 6 Associations in Data
    • Grade 8: Unit 7 Exponents and Scientific Notation
    • Grade 8: Unit 8 – Pythagorean Theorem and Irrational Numbers
    • Grade 8: Unit 9 – Putting It All Together

Grade 6: Unit 1 Area and Surface Area

This is a compilation of resources built from the IM/Open Up 6th curriculum.

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Lesson

Video Overview
Lesson PlanSlide PresentationBlackline Masters / GlossaryStudent Task StatementsCool DownCumulative Practice ProblemsAligned VideoKhan Academy Aligned LessonsOptional?
1.1 Tiling the Plane

6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– area
– region
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Video 1: Reasoning to Find Area (Lessons 1–3, 11)
1.2 Finding Area by Decomposing and Rearranging

6.G.A
6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
Blackline Masters

– area
– compose
– decompose
– region
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
1.3 Reasoning to Find Area

6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
Blackline Masters

– area
– compose
– decompose
– region
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 3: Reasoning to find area
1.4 Parallelograms

6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– parallelogram
– quadrilateral

Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Desmos
Geogebra
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html (English)
html (Spanish)
Video 2: Parallelograms (Lessons 4–6)
1.5 Bases and Heights of Parallelograms

6.EE.A.2.a
6.EE.A.2.c
6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– parallelogram
– quadrilateral
– base (of a parallelogram or triangle)
– height (of a parallelogram or triangle)
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

Points to emphasize
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 5: Bases and heights of parallelograms
1.6 Area of Parallelograms

6.EE.A.2.c
6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– parallelogram
– quadrilateral
– base (of a parallelogram or triangle)
– height (of a parallelogram or triangle)
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

Points to emphasize
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 6: Area of parallelograms
1.7 From Parallelograms to Triangles

6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
Blackline MastersDesmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

Press pause
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Video 3: Triangles (Lessons 7–10)
1.8 Area of Triangles

6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
Blackline MastersDesmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 8: Area of triangles
1.9 Formula for the Area of a Triangle

6.EE.A.2.a
6.EE.A.2.c
6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– vertex
– opposite vertex
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 9: Formula for area of a triangle
1.10 Bases and Heights of Triangles

6.EE.A.2.c
6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– edge
– vertex
– opposite vertex
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
1.11 Polygons

6.G.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
Blackline Masters

– polygon
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

Points to emphasize
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 11: Polygons
1.12 What is Surface Area?

6.G.A.4
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– face
– surface area
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Desmos
Geogebra
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html (Spanish)
Video 4: Surface Area (Lessons 12–15)Lesson 12: What is surface area?
1.13 Polyhedra

6.G.A.4
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
Blackline Masters

– base (of a prism or pyramid)
– face
– net
– polyhedron
– prism
– pyramid
– surface area
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

Points to emphasize
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 13: Polyhedra
1.14 Nets and Surface Area

6.G.A.4
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
Blackline Masters

– base (of a prism or pyramid)
– face
– net
– polyhedron
– prism
– pyramid
– surface area
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 14: Nets and surface area
1.15 More Nets, More Surface Area

6.G.A.2
6.G.A.4
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– base (of a prism or pyramid)
– face
– net
– polyhedron
– prism
– pyramid
– surface area
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

Points to emphasize
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 15: More nets, more surface area

Extra practice: Surface area
1.16 Distinguishing Between Surface Area and Volume

6.G.A.4
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– base (of a prism or pyramid)
– face
– net
– polyhedron
– prism
– pyramid
– surface area
– volume
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

Points to emphasize
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Video 5: Distinguishing between Surface Area and Volume (Lessons 16–18)Optional
1.17 Squares and Cubes

6.EE.A
6.EE.A.1
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– cubed
– exponent
– squared
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

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Geogebra
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Lesson 17: Squares and cubes
1.18 Surface Area of a Cube

6.EE.A.1
6.EE.A.2.a
6.G.A.4
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
– cubed
– exponent
– squared
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
pdf (English)

Press pause
Desmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
Lesson 18: Surface area of a cube
1.19 Designing a Tent

6.G.A.1
6.G.A.4
lesson plan (pdf)

vocab
Google
Powerpoint
Blackline MastersDesmos
Geogebra
pdf (English)
html (English)
html (Spanish)
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IM 6–8 Math was originally developed by Open Up Resources and authored by Illustrative Mathematics®, and is copyright 2017-2019 by Open Up Resources. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). OUR’s 6–8 Math Curriculum is available at https://openupresources.org/math-curriculum/.

Adaptations and updates to IM 6–8 Math are copyright 2019 by Illustrative Mathematics, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Adaptations to add additional English language learner supports are copyright 2019 by Open Up Resources, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

The second set of English assessments (marked as set “B”) are copyright 2019 by Open Up Resources, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Spanish translation of the “B” assessments are copyright 2020 by Illustrative Mathematics, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).