Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will explore the properties of rotations and the relationships between the original and image figures.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transformations in Geometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity the teacher will send two lists, a window range, and an educational document via the TI-Navigator. Students will explore the reflections and rotations of a shape in the rectangular coordinate system.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Defining Rotations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this tutorial, students learn about the rules that operate in the rotation of 2-D figures on a coordinate grid. Includes video, lots of examples, review...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Transformations in Geometry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was designed to introduce fourth grade students to transformations in geometry. It includes translations, reflections, and rotations.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Rotate 2 D Shapes in 3 D

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice your 3D visualization skills by rotating 2D shapes. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Rotate Points

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this exercise, students practice performing rotations on a coodinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to watch a video, get hints, or try questions repeatedly.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Translation, Rotations, and Reflections

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Translate, rotate, and reflect figures using coordinate notation and graphing in the coordinate plane.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Transformation Classification

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify and describe transformations in the coordinate plane.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometry in Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, young scholars observe symmetry, geometric shapes, and angles in two Early American dances, and then choreograph their own dance with symmetrical figures. Media and teaching materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Translations, Reflections, and Rotations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students are introduced to translations, reflections, and rotations and how to explore them in real-world scenarios.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Traveling Shapes Motion Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students describe how to move a shape from one place to another in a plane. They learn about translations, rotations, and line reflections. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Website
Other

Transformational Geometry & Iteration in Mangbetu Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Mangbetu art shows the use of all four geometric transforms: Reflection, Translation, Rotation, and Scaling. This website will provide you with some cultural background on the Mangbetu and their art. The software will allow you to...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Geometry City

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan reviews transformations in the coordinate plane while mimicking real-world planning skills. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extention as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Rotate Points

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
In this set of questions, students use an interactive tool to rotate objects on a Cartesian grid. Help is available through hints and videos.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Types of Transformations Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Transformations move and modify geometric shapes. There are several types of transformations that all transform figures in different ways. These transformations can...
Rubric
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Self Check Quiz on Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students show comprehension of advanced mathematics skills in Geometry. The questions check understanding on transformational geometry. Topics include translations, symmetry, and rotations.
Unit Plan
Math Planet

Math Planet: Geometry: Transformation Using Matrices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains how simple polygons translate into matrices and how to use 2x2 matrices to represent transformations in a plane. Includes video demonstrating an example where a vector must be rotated 90 degrees using matrices. [4:18]
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Geometric Translations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students learn how to translate a figure. They examine guided notes, review examples, watch instructional videos, and try practice problems.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Composition of Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students explore composite transformations. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice...
Activity
Other

Hstry: Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A unique geometry project that asks students to complete a transformation using a picture. Project includes instructions, examples, and quiz questions.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Connecting Translations, Reflection, and Rotations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will investigate the relationship among the three types of rigid transformations - translations, rotations, and reflections.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Tessellations Geometry and Symmetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson plan deals with tessellations and their geometric concepts. Upper elementary and middle school learners will also explore polygons, symmetry, analyze patterns and explore the role of mathematics in nature and culture.
Lesson Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Learning Math: Symmetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This presentation provides a tutorial on symmetry. In the tutorial, you will do the following: learn about geometric symmetry, explore line or reflection symmetry, explore rotation symmetry, and explore translation symmetry and frieze...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Fixed Points of Rigid Motions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A rigid motion of the plane is a map of the plane to itself which preserves distances between points. The purpose of this task is to use fixed points as a tool for studying and classifying rigid motions of the plane, i.e., translations,...