Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Go Fishing for Positive and Negative Integers
This lesson will actively engage students in a fishing tournament that uses ordered pairs to catch fish. As students begin to catch the hidden fish, they will find a relationship between the integers in the ordered pairs. By identifying...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creating a Reflection
For this lesson, the learners will create geometric reflections. This is a hands on activity where the student will be able to conceptualize how geometric shapes are reflected across the x and y axis of a coordinate graph. This lesson...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mapping a Leaf
In this activity, students will identify and record ordered pairs from a coordinate plane. They will examine symmetry about the axes, reflections, and symmetry in nature. They understand geometric concepts like area and perimeter, and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Treasure Hunt
This introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students plot points in the coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Picnic Challenge
In this activity, students find patterns to solve problems, explore functions, and graph linear functions on the coordinate plane.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Parametric Graph It
This activity allows the user to plot ordered pairs and parametric equations on the same coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Design Graphing Project
Students create a design by connecting points in the coordinate plane. They then program their calculators to display their designs.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Line of Best Fit
Use this activity to practice how to enter a set of data, plot the data on a coordinate grid, and determine the equation for a line of best fit.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Linear Inequalities
Students create linear inequalities and systems of linear inequalities on a coordinate plane. This is like a graphing calculator with advanced viewing options.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Think Math
Think Math offers a collection of 43 KET-produced resources from Math at the Core: Middle School, including 17 Scale City videos and interactives about proportional reasoning, 14 Wild Fractions animations and games that feature visual...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Drawing on Your Knowledge
In this activity, students will understand the basic geometric concepts of parallelism and perpendicularity, and will also able to use rectangular coordinates to make congruent objects. They will display understanding of parts of...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Circles in the Plane
In this activity, students can use the Cabri Jr. application to explore circles in a plane. They will investigate the relationship between the equation of a circle, the length of its radius, and the coordinates of its center. [Requires...
University of Waterloo (Canada)
University of Waterloo: Cemc: Geometry and Spatial Sense: Transformations [Pdf]
Accompanied by links to online activities and demonstrations, learners learn about the different types of transformations on a coordinate grid through this lesson plan. The lesson is designed to match the Grade 7 Ontario curriculum, with...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game
Use this clever applet to move your robot to safe ordered pairs as it travels to its destination. This all takes place in the first quadrant. Direction are just a click away.
TeacherLED
Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Two Quadrant Graph
Use this interactive white board activity to explore coordinate planes and graphing ordered pairs.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Translations
These activities provide an opportunity for students to explore translations both on and off of a coordinate plane.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Hip Hip Hooray for the 100th Day!
Scholastic.com provides a reproducible coordinate grid activity on a 100 grid to help your students celebrate the 100th day of school.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Plot Four: Positive and Negative Numbers
Plotting points is usually an interesting activity for students. Make it even more interesting and engaging using this game.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Impossible Graphs
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson outline, and a plotting-practice activity, examines impossible graphs.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: What Are You Plotting?
This one page website is for practicing graphing ordered pairs. It lets you know right away if your choice is incorrect. At the bottom of the page their is a challenge with the solution just a click away.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring the Unit Circle
In this activity, students explore the properties of a unit circle and its mapping functions.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Function Flyer
This activity allows the manipulation of the constants and coefficients in any function thereby encouraging the user to explore the effects on the graph of the function by changing those numbers.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Determine the Vertices of Transformed Images
This hands-on lesson uses exploration and discovery to help students determine the coordinates of the vertices of various figures when translated, rotated, or reflected in a coordinate plane. The exploration phase will access students'...