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Energetic Energy: A Child?s Guide to Responsible Energy Use
Students explore how energy transforms into heat. In this energy instructional activity students create models and find a need for fuel to make a Stirling engine.
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Reflection with a Graphing Calculator
In this transformation worksheet, students reflect a triangle using the list function of a graphing calculator. There are 15 questions.
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Tessellations
In this tessellation worksheet, students create tessellations using stated figures. They rotate and transform given figures. This one-page worksheet contains 5 problems.
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Transformations
In this algebra activity, students identify different transformations based on the x and y axis reflections. They use vectors to do their translations. There are 28 questions.
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Tessellating Ceiling Tiles
Students transform polygons. In this tessellating lesson, students design a picture containing a translation and a rotation. They create a template of a translation or a rotation. Students tessellate and decorate a ceiling tile.
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Rotations of Shapes
In this rotation of shapes worksheet, students perform given rotations and graph the image of the transformed figure. They observe transformations and write a rule to describe the rotation. This four-page worksheet contains 14...
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Unit 7 Transformations
In this transformations worksheet, students observe the errors in the reflection of a picture. They determine the number of transformations needed to complete a grid. Students perform reflections according to directions and solve...
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Transformational Puppet
High Schoolers create a puppet and make predictions using the TI Navigator. In this math lesson, they will discuss their results as they explore transformation. This assignment requires the TI navigator or a smartboard.
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Rotations in the Plane
Pupils investigate the properties of a rotation as they use technology (Cabri, Jr.) to observe the relationship between the pre-image and the image formed by the rotation. The lesson provides ample opportunity for learners to conjecture...
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Transformations and Exponential Functions
Tenth graders study graphing exponential functions. In this transformations lesson, 10th graders apply inquiry to determine how changes to a parent function affect its graph. Students analyze transformed graphs and generate the function...
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Transformations and Congruence
In this transformations and congruence worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 5 different types of problems. First, they calculate the length of a line giving their answer in 3 significant figures. Then, students prove that two...
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Coordinate Connections
Sixth graders complete several activities that involve coordinates and graph paper. They visualize and identify geometric shapes after applying transformations on a coordinate plane. Finally, 6th graders draw and label a coordinate...
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Transforming Triangles
Sixth graders graph translations (slides) and reflections (flips) on a coordinate plane. They visualize and identify geometric shapes after applying transformations on a coordinate plane. Finally, 6th graders write a paragraph telling...
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Tessellations
Students identify and construct figures that tessellate. They investigate which regular polygons tessellate and how to modify them to make other tessellating figures. Students explore how naturally occurring tessellations have been...
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Now and Then
Students record transformations and their effects within and across cultures. Students study the life of specific people in a former time period and then in the present time period. This teacher focused on the Winnebago tribe, using her...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Students explore the world of love and magic in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Comparisons are made to the life experiences of the reader as love's portrayal in contemporary situations are analized.
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THE GAM SAAN ADVENTURE ARE YOU WILLING TO RISK IT?
Fourth graders study the lasting influence of the Pony Express, Overland Mail Service, Western Union, and the building of the transcontinental railroad, including the contributions of Chinese workers to its construction. They explore the...
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Transformations
Middle schoolers solve and identify 10 different problems that include transformations and identifying translations. They determine if each figure is an example of a translation and explain how each figure may or may not be a...
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Graphing and Writing the Rule for Transformations
In this translations worksheet, students graph the given image using the transformations described in six problems and write the rule for the transformation graphed in six more problems.
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"Ode to the West Wind" Theme of Transformation
In this "Ode to the West Wind" activity students discuss the poet's hope that the wind will transform him. Students answer three questions about the transformation.
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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra Theme of Transformation
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions based on the theme of transformation in The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra. Students may also complete their choice of 3 reading activities...
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Transformations Homework
In this geometry worksheet, learners transform a coordinate based on a reflection, translation, or dilation in order to obtain the image. There are 12 questions.
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Transformations of a Quadratic Function
Students graph quadratic functions. In this algebra lesson, students perform transformation on the TI calculator as they create a visual. They identify the vertex and intercepts of the parabola.
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Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, and Diagonalization
Students determine eigenvectors and eigenvalues for a matrix. Students diagonalize a matrix. Similar matrices are defined. Determinant formula is given for an degree n polynomial.