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ClassFlow
Class Flow: Looking for Pythagoras Lesson 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this second installment, students are tasked to determine the fastest route between two sets of coordinates on a grid, determine the total number of blocks a land vehicle must travel, and find the...
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Looking for the Top Quark
In Looking for the Top Quark, each player receives six quarks that they hide on a grid. The players use coordinates to find their opponent's hidden quarks. The first player to find all six of their opponent's quarks wins!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Drawing Polygons With Coordinates
Practice drawing shapes on the coordinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Harvard University
Harvard University: Maps and Mapping
This site is provided for by Harvard University. Students follow a map on a scavenger hunt, create a map of their classroom and their town, learn how to read topographic maps, and discover latitude and longitude in these inquiry activities.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Distance Using the Pythagorean Theorem
This interactive exercise focuses on using the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate distance and plotting points on a Cartesian grid.
Other
Math Mammoth: Children's Best Activities: Copy the Pictures
A collection of animal pictures with grid overlays for drawing practice. Students copy an image by drawing the contents of each square of the grid into a matching square on a second blank grid next to the picture. Each activity can be...
University of Waterloo (Canada)
University of Waterloo: Cemc: Geometry and Spatial Sense: Transformations [Pdf]
Accompanied by links to online activities and demonstrations, middle schoolers 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...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Introduction to Slope for Middle Years Mathematics
This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson introduces students to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two moves them...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Cartesian Puzzle
This one page website lets you practice plotting points on the coordinate grid. See if you can find the missing coordinates to complete the shapes. When you are finished the solutions are only a click away.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Wrecks Factor: Factor Simple and Harder Quadratics
In this game, you must send rescuers to ships trapped in the Bermuda Triangle by first decoding their coordinates that were given to you as quadratic expressions. As you decode the coordinates, you must draw a search area on a grid that...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphing Coordinates
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn step by step how to graph coordinates on a coordinate plane.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Practice: Rotate Points
In this set of questions, students use an interactive tool to rotate objects on a Cartesian grid. Help is available through hints and videos.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Practice: Reflect Points
In this set of questions, students practice using an interactive tool to reflect images on a Cartesian grid. Includes hints.
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.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Texas in Conflict, 1900 1920 [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, students read a section on Texas history between 1900-1920 and find the answers...