Skip To Main Content

Geometry

Lower Dauphin School District

Curriculum Guide

Course Title: Geometry
Subject: Mathematics
Grade Level(s):8

Synopsis of Curriculum

Middle school geometry students will develop an understanding of basic geometry tools and apply those to more in depth concepts.  Students will spend time investigating angles, lines, polygons including triangles and quadrilaterals and will be introduced to trigonometric concepts.  Higher-level thinking and reasoning will be utilized to demonstrate student reasoning and understanding of Euclidean geometry concepts. 

Units of Study Titles

Unit 1 - Tools of Geometry

Unit 2 - Reasoning and Proof

Unit 3 - Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

Unit 4 - Congruent Triangles

Unit 5 - Properties of Triangles

Unit 6 - Quadrilaterals

Unit 8 – Similarity

Unit 9 - Right Triangles and Trigonometry

Unit 10 – Circles

Unit 11 – Area of Polygons and Circles

Unit 12 – Surface Area and Volume