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    Proportional Relationships

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    Subject: Math

    Lesson Length: 25 - 35 mins

    Topic: Ratios and Proportional Relationships; Proportional Relationships

    Grade Level: 7

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems. 

    Know Before You Start: Students should be familiar with proportional quantities prior to this lesson. This lesson could be used as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding of proportional quantities.

    Hook:

    • Have students turn to a partner and explain how they know if two quantities are proportional. Share several responses to check for understanding.

    Activity:

    • Have students choose one of the sample comic panels and respond to the following:

      • If they are proportional, explain and justify how you know.

      • If they are not proportional, explain and justify how you know and provide a number that would make the relationship proportional.

      • Use a caption at the top of you comic to denote which sample comic you are referring to (1 or 2).

    • Have students create a comic explaining whether or not the two quantities in the sample they chose are proportional. 

    Closure:

    • As a class, have students decide which sample comic panel is proportional and which is not.

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature. 
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
    • Provide sentence frames or key words as needed.
    • Allow students to work with a partner.

    Resources:

    • Comic to print or display: Comic.

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