CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Preschool Races
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the relationship between rotational and translational kinetic energy, and how each are exchanged when objects roll down inclined ramps using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and...
Other
P.u.e.m.a.c.: Galeria De Transformaciones
Enjoy constructions created by rotations, reflections and translations. [Requires Java.]
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Self Check Quiz on Transformations
Students show comprehension of advanced mathematics skills in Geometry. The questions check understanding on transformational geometry. Topics include translations, symmetry, and rotations.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Transmographer 2
Build your own polygon and transform it in the Cartesian coordinate system. Experiment with reflections across any line, rotations about any point, and translations in any direction.
Other
Nearpod: Transformations & Congruence
In this lesson on transformations and congruence, 8th graders will investigate dilations, rotations, reflections, and translations on the coordinate plane and the figures that result from these transformations.
Other
Nearpod: Introduction to Geometric Transformations
In this lesson, students will learn how to describe and identify reflections, rotations, translations, and dilations.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Transformation
This site defines transformation and lists several different examples of transformations. Be sure to follow the links to related terms, everyday examples, challenging problems, more information, and the interactive check point involving...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Transformations
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students apply multiple transformations to create congruent and similar figures in any or all of the four quadrants. Students apply their geometric sense by using multiple...
BBC
Bbc Schools: Transformations Quiz
Questions related to translations, reflections, rotations, and more can be found on this quiz. Use the links provided to view the quiz in full screen, change the quiz format, review key facts about transformations, and have fun with the...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Definition of Congruent
Definition of congruent. Choose the "here's more" link to see examples of a rotation, reflection and translation.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Transformations in Geometry
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was designed to introduce fourth grade students to transformations in geometry. It includes translations, reflections, and rotations.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Transformation Tease
Follow the directions at this one page website. You will get lots of practice plotting points on the coordinate grid and experience with transformational geometry.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Tesselations
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a visual instruction of tessellations. It displays a variety of tessellations throughout the world and in different cultures.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Comparing and Explaining Transformations
Given rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations, students will be able to develop algebraic representations for rotations, and generalize and then compare and contrast the properties of congruence transformations and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Ding! Going Up? Elevators and Engineering
Students create model elevator carriages and calibrate them, similar to the work of design and quality control engineers. Students use measurements from rotary encoders to recreate the task of calibrating elevators for a high-rise...
Other
Brilliant: Conservation of Energy
Discusses conservation of energy, and explains what kinetic energy is, some kinds of potential energy, and how work and energy are related using the work-kinetic energy theorem. Provides lots of examples along with calculations.
University of Waterloo (Canada)
University of Waterloo: Cemc: Geometry and Spatial Sense: Transformations [Pdf]
Accompanied by links to online activities and demonstrations, students 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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Geometry City
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.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Market Place: 2 D Space
At the Food Market there are a lot of shapes. Help Afia find and name the shapes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Scaling Items in a Scene
In this activity, students will arranging items with scaling. The items that just require translation are already in place. Now you can add items that require translation and scaling. Ignore any item that requires rotation. Again, once...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Transforming Tangrams
The student will use the transformations - rotation, reflection, translation - to create common shapes from tangram pattern blocks
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Similar Figures
Find a clear explanation of similar figures. Discusses how they can be transformed through a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations. Explanations are supported with illustrated examples.
Other
Center for Technology and Teacher Education:exploring and Creating Tessellations
This site is a Geometer's Sketch Pad lesson plan where students explore tessellations through reflections, rotations, and translations.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Geometry: Transformation Using Matrices
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]