Coordinate Plane Lesson: Four Quadrants, Reflections & Distance, Grades 6-7

The signs of an ordered pair tell you the quadrant. This lesson takes students from the first quadrant to all four: plot a point, name its quadrant, reflect it across one axis or both axes, and find the distance between two points that share an x- or a y-coordinate.

What's inside

• 18 slides, with speaker notes on all 18
• Lesson plan, 2 pages: standards, materials, objective, a teacher-guided sequence keyed to slide numbers, a "Watch For" note and a 25-minute version
• Scaffolded notes, 1 page, fill-in to match the slides
• Practice worksheet, 2 pages: 19 items (2 plot-and-read items in Part A, 14 quadrant, reflection and distance items in Part B, 3 find-the-error or explain in Part C)
• Exit ticket, 3 questions, two to a sheet
• Unit Check, 1 page, 10 items, 1 point each, with a score box
• Answer key, 4 pages, with the steps and every grid; the last page is the Unit Check key
• Print-all PDF, 11 pages, the day's lesson plan, notes, practice, exit ticket, Unit Check and answer key in one file

Answer key included

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