Congruency and Similarity Unit 8th Grade Math Curriculum

Students work through parallel lines and transversals, geometric transformations and similar figures in this complete congruency and similarity unit for 8th grade math. There are five multi-day lessons.

Topics covered

• Parallel Lines and Transversals
• Geometric Transformations
• Similarity and Congruency
• Similar Triangles
• Area and Perimeter of Similar Figures

What’s included

Lesson materials:

• Daily warm ups, with weekly warm up recording sheets
• Guided notes
• Fold and flip notes
• Practice assignments (for homework or classwork)
• Daily exit tickets
• Unit vocabulary sheet
• Printable student workbook
• Blank lesson plan recording page

Assessments:

• Unit pre-assessment
• Two quizzes
• Unit post assessment
• Google Forms versions of the assessments

The unit comes as a complete PDF and as an editable PPT version.

Good to know

• You must have PowerPoint to use the editable file. Instructions for editing are provided in the download.
• All questions and notes are editable. Copyright information, backgrounds, formatting, foldable templates and the multiple choice version of the test are not.
• Activities are not included in this resource.

Quick facts

• Grade: 8
• CCSS: 8.G.A.1, 8.G.A.2, 8.G.A.3, 8.G.A.4, 8.G.A.5, 8.EE.B.6, 7.RP.A.2
• Answer key: included

Bundles and related resources

This is Unit 6 of my 8th Grade Math Curriculum. Follow that link if you’d like to purchase the complete curriculum. The completed 8th Grade Curriculum is offered as an add on to my 8th Grade Math Curriculum Resources Mega Bundle. There will be no overlap between this and the Curriculum Resources Mega Bundle.

A digital notebook version of this unit is sold as the Congruency and Similarity Digital Interactive Notebook for 8th Grade.

Units in the 8th Grade Curriculum:

• Unit 1: Real Numbers and Exponents
• Unit 2: Equations and Expressions
• Unit 3: Linear and Functional Relationships
• Unit 4: Systems of Linear Equations
• Unit 5: Patterns and Bivariate Data
• Unit 6: Congruency and Similarity
• Unit 7: Geometry

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