Unit 1 - CIRCLES AND VOLUME
The four lessons that I will be teaching in this unit all relate to this theme and these lessons are introducing circles, inscribed polygons and circumscribed triangles, constructing tangent lines and explaining and applying area and volume formulas. In introducing circles the students will begin to explore the properties of circles by examining similar circles, the chord central angles conjecture and properties of tangents. Then the students will move into inscribed polygons and circumscribed triangles, here the students will explore and prove the properties by constructing inscribed and circumscribed circles. Then the students will move into the next lesson and learn how to construct tangent lines. Finally the students will take all that they have learned in the previous three lessons and apply the volume of cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres.