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Math Quilts
Students examine geometric quilt patterns to identify how math may have been used to help slaves escape to freedom. They slide, flip and turn geometric shapes to create a map quilt.
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States and Capitals Activity
Students explore states and capitals. In this U.S. geography instructional activity, students practice locomotor skills playing Freeze Tag. Students generate the matching capital when given a specific state name in order to continue the...
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 4: Transformation Station
Second graders manipulate triangles to discover the concepts of slides, flips and turns of a geometric shape.
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Transformations-Shapes on the Move
Students examine transformations. In this math lesson, students view and describe flips, slides, and turns. Students practice making transformations with shapes.
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Skipping
Students investigate skipping and sliding. In this movement lesson, students practice skipping and sliding while holding colored chalk marking the wall mixing the colors to make different colors.
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Microscopes
In this microscope worksheet, students complete a word search by finding the 22 terms associated with the parts of a microscope.
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Slides, Flips, and Turns
In this geometry worksheet, 2nd graders review how to determine which piece would complete the geometric shape that is pictured. They circle whether it was a flip or a slide to move the piece into position. They draw or write to explain...
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Translating Transformations in Geometry
Students create an image using given coordinates and evaluate how the coordinates change when a slide or rotation takes place.
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Flip, Turn or Slide?
For this flip, turn or slide worksheet, students determine which has been done to a set of 6 letters. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Transformations
In this transformations worksheet, 10th graders identify and complete 10 different problems that include various types of transformations. First, they label each figure with the correct term listed on the top. Students also identify and...
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Curling: The Slide
Eleventh graders explore the slide in the game of curling. They review the critical components of the slide and practice performing the slide one at a time. Students play a game of curling using the slide.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 5, Lesson 24: Read All About It!
Students listen to The Important Thing About Quilt Design and rewrite an original version using geometric terms.