This lesson plan includes a warm up, class activity, power point presentation, class notes for the student to fill in during the lesson, a quiz, homework, and a bulletin board poster.
Students derive the formula for the area of a parallelogram using a shape-building activity. The students use cut outs to build different combination shapes. The students find the area of the shapes they build and some pre-made parallelograms. They will see that parallelograms are made from two triangles or t