Curated OER
Glacial Geocaching
Eighth graders measure strike and dip of given land features and explain the difference between them. They also look at rock and mineral samples for indentification, along with calculating the density. Finally, information is analyzed...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines, Transversals and Angles
This activity allows students to: 1. Identify the pairs of angles formed when a transversal intersects two lines.: 2. Measure angles Using Cabri Jr. 3. Identify relationships between pairs of angles when a transversal intersects parallel...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Angles and Transversals
Students explore the relationships of angles formed when two parallel or non-parallel lines are cut by a transversal. This activity investigates the terms: Transversal, corresponding angles, alternate interior angles, alternate exterior...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Transversal
Learn about transversals with this handy reference guide. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Properties of Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal
In this activity, students create parallel lines and a transversal, and study the properties of the lines and their angles.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal
In this activity, students learn and increase their knowledge about the angles formed when parallel lines are cut by a transversal.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal With Cabri Jr.
Using Cabri Jr, the students (with the teachers help) will create parallel lines cut by a transversal, measure angles, and compare the relationships of the angles formed using features of the Cabri Jr.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Angles Formed by Parallel Lines and a Transversal
Students explore relationships in various angles formed by 2 parallel lines and a transversal.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Ejs Transverse Wave Model
A simulation for examining the transverse wave motion of a string. Wave variables can be changed using sliders. Includes suggested activities.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Parallel Lines (Object Interactive)
Investigate vertically opposite, corresponding, and alternate angles formed by parallel lines and a transversal using this highly interactive Learn Alberta math. Be sure to follow the link to the printable activities, solutions, learning...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Make Some Waves
In this activity, students use their own creativity (and their bodies) to make longitudinal and transverse waves. Through the use of common items, they will investigate the different between longitudinal and transverse waves.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Phenomenon of Sound Waves
A lab activity on sound waves is presented on this website. Students will learn about sound waves produced by different objects in this activity. There are also a set of discussion questions and two other variations of the lab exercise.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Waves
Through informational text, interactive activities, and practice problems, students learn about the properties of waves, and how they transfer energy.
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.
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...
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: You Don't Need a Seismograph to Study Earthquakes
Three part lesson will provide students with information about earthquakes and how to predict them using various Web sites. Activities include historical background on major earthquakes, investigating mechanical waves, and simulating...
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...
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.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 3: Technical Aspects of Art
In this third unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn how to describe the technical aspects of an artist's work by discussing elements of art and principles of design. They also look at the stylistic qualities of an artist's...
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Energy of Music
Students are introduced to sound energy concepts and how engineers use sound energy. Through hands-on activities and demonstrations, students examine how we know sound exists by listening to and seeing sound waves. They learn to describe...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Equation Practice With Angles
In this practice activity, students calculate angles created when two parallel lines are intersected by a transversal. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to watch a video, get hints, or try questions repeatedly.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Alternate Interior Angles
Explore the triangle inequality theorem with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.