Google
Google for Education: Area of a Circle
Students learn to derive the formula for the area of a circle. They learn to relate a circle to a parallelogram and rectangle while learning the concept of infinity as they imagine slicing an circle into infinitesimally small slices.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Area of the Trapeziod
This activity is a based on an activity I saw in Exploring Geometry with the Geometer's Sketchpad. Student will construct a trapeziod and then use rotation to create a parallelogram from the trapeziod. The follow up questions lead the...