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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Slope, Parallel & Perpendicular Lines & Transversals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-five problems cover the topics of slope, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, and transversals in different settings. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the...
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Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Angles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Everything you wanted to know about angles and more, including 1) how to measure angles 2) types of angles 3) angle relationships and 4) angles around a transversal.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Geometric Relationships

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Given information in a geometric context, students will be able to use informal arguments to establish facts about the angle sum and exterior angle of triangles, the angles created when parallel lines are cut by a transversal, and the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Waves

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe various characteristics associated with a wave and differentiate between transverse and longitudinal waves.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound and Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Sound and Light unit provides students with an understanding of sound and light waves through the theme of the "Sunken Treasure," a continuous story line throughout the lessons. In Lessons 1-5, students learn about sound, and in...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Electromagnetic Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, compare characteristics and behaviors of transverse waves, including electromagnetic waves.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Making and Verifying Conjectures About Angles

For Students 9th - 10th
Given the relationship(s) among a set of angles, the student investigates the patterns and makes conjectures about the geometric relationships, including angles formed by parallel lines cut by a transversal.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Making Conjectures About Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The student will verify theorems about angles formed by parallel lines cut by a transversal and apply these relationships to solve problems.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Riding the Radio Waves

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this instructional activity students learn how AM radios work through basic concepts about waves and magnetic fields. Waves are first introduced by establishing the difference between transverse and longitudinal waves, as well as...
Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Parallel Lines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get the definition for parallel lines and explore angles associated with parallel lines.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Angles Formed by Parallel Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use Cabri Jr. to construct parallel lines and transversals. They will make conjectures about the angles that are formed.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Slinky in Hand

For Students 9th - 10th
Use a Slinky toy to investigate the resonance of transverse and longitudinal waves.
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Extreme Science

Extreme Science: A Lesson in Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
With its clickable map, this site provides text and graphics on spreading boundary, converging boundary, subduction zone, transverse boundaries and faults.
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US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Teaching About and Using Coordinate Systems [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provides lessons and activities for teaching about the different types of coordinate systems including the Cartesian coordinate system, the Geographic Coordinate System, the Universal Transverse Mercator grid, and the State Plane...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Checking the Surf

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson introduces the concepts of wavelength and amplitude in transverse waves. In the associated activity, young scholars will use ropes and their bodies to investigate different wavelengths and amplitudes.
Interactive
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves and Sound: Standing Wave Patterns Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the formation of standing waves, the vibrational patterns associated with the various harmonics, and the difference between transverse and longitudinal standing waves.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves: The Anatomy of a Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the characteristics of both transverse and longitudinal waves.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Types of Waves: Mechanical Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Move the points to change the frequency and amplitude of the waves while making the waves transverse or longitudinal according to the labels.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Why Do Scientists Think That Light and Sound Are Waves?

For Students 9th - 10th
Light travels as transverse waves and can travel through a vacuum. Sound travels as longitudinal waves and needs to travel through a solid, liquid or gas. Read about the properties of light and of sound, and learn the differences between...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Wave Characteristics Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the characteristics of periodic transverse and longitudinal waves such as wavelength, crest, trough, amplitude, expansion, and compression.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Sail Problem (Parallel Lines & Segment Relationships)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will explore the proportional relationships involved in multiple parallel lines being cut by transversals. These relationships are approached through exploration of a sail design problem, where students are to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Congruence of Alternate Interior Angles

For Teachers 8th Standards
Eighth graders are presented with a labeled drawing of two parallel lines intersected by a transversal line. They are asked to discuss congruency of angles when the picture is rotated about a point on the transversal. Aligns with 8.G.A.5.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This file contains questions related to parallel lines cut by a transversal and the angles formed. The questions can be used to asses your students' understanding of this topic in geometry.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Visually Evaluating Parallel Lines Cut by a Traversal

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems about parallel lines cut by a transversal.

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