Measurement

• 5 weeks
  Stop Motion Studio: Animation

  Year 8 sequence · Working with rates and time: frames per second, film length and the number of photos needed

• 5 weeks
  Kai and Me: Food Choices and Labels

  Year 7 sequence · Converting grams to teaspoons and comparing quantities per 100 g

• 5 weeks
  Measure Up: Designing Spaces

  Year 7 sequence · Choosing metric base units and prefixes; squared units for area and cubed units for volume; formulas for perimeter (P = 2(l + w)), area of rectangles and triangles, and volume of cubes and rectangular prisms (V = lwh); finding unknown lengths from a given perimeter, area or volume; decomposing composite shapes

• 5 weeks
  Find Your Way: Maps, Angles and Coordinates

  Year 7 sequence · Measuring and converting metric lengths (cm, m, km) when drawing and reading maps

• 5 weeks
  Shape Shifters: Transformations and Tessellation

  Year 7 sequence · Using area formulae and metric conversions to work out how many tiles cover a real surface

• 5 weeks
  Measure Up: Designing Spaces

  Year 8 sequence · Converting between metric units of area and volume; capacity and volume conversions (1 mL = 1 cm³, 1 L = 1000 cm³, 1 m³ = 1000 L); area of parallelograms and trapeziums; volume of triangular prisms and composite figures

• 5 weeks
  The Hidden World of Cells

  Year 7 sequence · Estimating very small lengths from a microscope's field of view and converting between millimetres and micrometres

• 5 weeks
  Silk Roads and Sea Routes: When Worlds Trade

  Year 7 sequence · Calculating travel times along the routes from distances and daily travel speeds of camels, ships and walkers

• 4 weeks
  Te Hoahoa Otinga: Designing Solutions

  Year 7 sequence · Measuring the user and the space in millimetres; scale for sketches and models

• 5 weeks
  Kai Lab: Food Technology

  Year 7 sequence · Metric conversions and percentages: water loss in drying, salt as a percentage of weight, cost per serve

• 5 weeks
  Build It Strong: Structures and Mechanisms

  Year 7 sequence · Metric conversions and measuring to the millimetre for spans, heights and sag

• 5 weeks
  Designing for Our Community

  Year 8 sequence · Finding missing lengths and gradients in practical situations; scale drawings

• Number
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Statistics
• Probability

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