Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Slope, Parallel & Perpendicular Lines & Transversals
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...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Angles
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Geometric Relationships
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Waves
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sound and Light
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Electromagnetic Waves
[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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Making and Verifying Conjectures About Angles
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Making Conjectures About Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
The student will verify theorems about angles formed by parallel lines cut by a transversal and apply these relationships to solve problems.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Riding the Radio Waves
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...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Parallel Lines
Get the definition for parallel lines and explore angles associated with parallel lines.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Angles Formed by Parallel Lines
Students can use Cabri Jr. to construct parallel lines and transversals. They will make conjectures about the angles that are formed.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Slinky in Hand
Use a Slinky toy to investigate the resonance of transverse and longitudinal waves.
Extreme Science
Extreme Science: A Lesson in Plate Tectonics
With its clickable map, this site provides text and graphics on spreading boundary, converging boundary, subduction zone, transverse boundaries and faults.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Teaching About and Using Coordinate Systems [Pdf]
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Checking the Surf
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.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves and Sound: Standing Wave Patterns Interactive
Students investigate the formation of standing waves, the vibrational patterns associated with the various harmonics, and the difference between transverse and longitudinal standing waves.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: The Anatomy of a Wave
Students explore the characteristics of both transverse and longitudinal waves.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Types of Waves: Mechanical Wave
[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.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Why Do Scientists Think That Light and Sound Are Waves?
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Wave Characteristics Review
Review the characteristics of periodic transverse and longitudinal waves such as wavelength, crest, trough, amplitude, expansion, and compression.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Sail Problem (Parallel Lines & Segment Relationships)
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...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Congruence of Alternate Interior Angles
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Visually Evaluating Parallel Lines Cut by a Traversal
[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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