Circles and cylinders: Year 8 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Circles and cylinders. Students recall and revise circumference, radius and diameter from Year 7. They understand the relationships between these measures and can use relevant formulae to solve problems.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8M03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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