Grade 7 Lesson plan
Quarrymere's Treatment Wetland Plan: A Grade 7 Scale Lesson
A 55-minute grade 7 math lesson where students read actual lengths and areas from a fictional village's wetland site plan, then redraw one cell at a new scale.
Common Core Math · Grade 7
7.G.A.1 Solve problems involving scale drawings
Solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures, including computing actual lengths and areas from a scale drawing and reproducing a scale drawing at a different scale.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students use a scaled watershed map to find the true length of a river or the actual area of a drainage basin, then redraw the map at a different scale. Scaling a watershed map is the same skill hydrologists use when working between a field map and a GIS model.
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17 materials aligned to 7.G.A.1
Lesson plans
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Saltwick Bay Desalination Cutaway: A Reverse Osmosis Art Lesson
A grade 7 art lesson where students draw a scale cutaway poster of one reverse osmosis vessel for a fictional seawater desalination plant.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Marking Tavistock's Water Mains Before the Dig
A grade 7 careers lesson on the utility locator who marks buried pipe, using a fictional town map at one inch to forty feet for scale-drawing practice.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Threshel Brook Culvert: Criteria for a Farm Road Crossing
A grade 7 lesson where students use a map scale to find a drainage area, size the design flow for a fictional culvert, and separate its criteria from its constraints.
Worksheets
Grade 7 Worksheet
Hagley's New Water Meter Lids: A Cast-Iron Pattern Worksheet
Grade 7 students plan a raised pattern for a fictional town's iron meter-box lids, working with scale, slip rules, symmetry, and how wear creates value.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Drawing the Layers Under Thrushcombe: A Cross-Section Worksheet
Grade 7 students plan a library panel from a fictional well log, choosing mark patterns and one-color emphasis and computing drawn layer heights from a scale.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Skelder Reservoir's Depth Profile: A Scale Drawing Worksheet
A grade 7 worksheet where students read a fictional reservoir cross-section drawn with one scale across and a different scale down, then rescale one measurement.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Kelmar Water Plant Mural Map: A Scale-Plan Worksheet
A grade 7 art-and-math worksheet where students read a scale floor plan of a fictional water plant to place a mural and signs to scale.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Harlan Bend Treatment Plant: A Scale-Drawing Worksheet
A grade 7 scale-drawing worksheet built on a fictional treatment plant site plan, where students find real lengths and areas and redraw at a new scale.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Marlstone Pressure Zone: A Grade 7 Scale-Drawing Worksheet
A grade 7 worksheet where students read a scaled map of a fictional water system's pressure zone to find real pipe lengths and area, then redraw it at a new scale.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Copperline Creek's Watershed Map: A Grade 7 Scale-Drawing Worksheet
A grade 7 worksheet where students use a watershed map's scale to find real distances and areas, then redraw the main channel at a new map scale.
Math problem sets
Grade 7 Math problem set
Quarrystone Hollow Fish Ladder: Scale Drawing and Pool Steps
A grade 7 problem set on a fictional dam where students size a fish ladder's pool steps, convert between drawing inches and real feet, and redraw at a second scale.
Grade 7 Math problem set
Halstead's Water Main Map: Scale Drawing Problems for Grade 7
A grade 7 math problem set using measurements from a scaled map of a neighborhood's water mains to find real lengths and areas, then convert one length to a new scale.
Grade 7 Math problem set
Stonecrop Ridge Cistern: Scale Drawing and Tank Volume Set
Eight problems where students convert a rainwater cistern blueprint's scale measurements to actual feet, find its volume in gallons, and redraw it at a new scale.
Projects
Grade 7 Project
The Cressbrook Watershed Pocket Map: Line Weight by Stream Order
Grade 7 teams design a folding trail map of a fictional watershed, setting each stream's line weight by its stream order and making the divide stand out.
Grade 7 Project
Slateford Clean-Water Plant Public Art Commission
A grade 7 art project where teams design a scale mural and three tour signs for a fictional clean-water plant within a set budget.
Quizzes & test questions
Grade 7 Quiz & test questions
Nettleby's Storm Drain Crew: An Inspection-Season Quiz
A grade 7 careers quiz on a fictional stormwater crew's inspection season, combining map-scale problems, percent items, and questions about crew safety rules.