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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Transmographer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Shodor Education Foundation provides an applet that "allows the user to explore the world of transformations, reflections, and rotations. It allows the user to translate triangles, squares, and parallelograms on both the x and y-axes."
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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.
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Handout
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Reflections and Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the various types of symmetries that can occur in the graphs of functions. Uses vertical, horizontal, and oblique reflections as a means of recognizing symmetries.
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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Dueling Pinwheels (Geometer's Sketchpad)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An introductory look at the interactive Geometer's Sketchpad in terms of using it to explore rotations, translations, and reflections. Only a beginner's amount of skill with the program is needed. Exploration questions are given for the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Transformations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will explore reflections of an object over the x-axis, y-axis, and origin.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Flipping Over the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students review basic geometry vocabulary while investigating reflections on a coordinate grid.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Reflections on the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use the activity center in TI-Navigator to discover a generalization for reflecting ordered pairs over the x- or y-axis.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Reflections in the Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn how to perform a reflection using the Cabri Jr. application, and will explore the properties of reflections. This activity will extend the concepts of reflection to the coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Double Your Design

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students learn to use pattern blocks to investigate symmetry by building a design, making its mirror image, and using the calculator to determine the value of both the design made and its reflection.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mapping a Leaf

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students will identify and record ordered pairs from a coordinate plane. They will examine symmetry about the axes, reflections, and symmetry in nature. They understand geometric concepts like area and perimeter, and...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Changing Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use as an assessment-discovery lesson after talking about reflections and transformations of functions
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transformations, Reflections and Translations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will discover how to move a function up, down, to the right or left or reflect it.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Finding the Shortest Path

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discover the shortest distance light travels from an object to the human eye, as the light from the object reflects off a single mirror. In the process they learn about reflection in a line, congruent angles, angle bisectors,...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Closer I Get to You Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here's a group activity your students can do to learn about rational functions. Students will use properties of reflections together with measuring tapes, mirrors, and masking tape to find a function that relates height of a reflection...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will let students understand the concept of reflection.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transforming "F" on the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students move their cursor in this activity center to occupy a unique point on a background letter "F" in quadrant 1. Students then together follow a rule for going to a different point (such as "use the opposite of the original x...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transformational Puppet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to reinforce the concepts of reflections and translations by having the students create a virtual puppet using Cabri Jr. As they construct their puppets, students will reinforce their understanding of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Reflecting a Triangle in the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use the drawing and measurement tools of Cabri Jr. to blend coordinate geometry with drawing tools. They visualize symmetry and reflect a point across the y-axis.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Reflections Over the Axes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
It is important for students to know what happens to the coordinates of points when they are reflected over the x-axis or the y-axis. This activity enables students to use Cabri Jr. to develop this understanding.
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: The Ray Model of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will understand the concept of the ray model of light and how light interacts with matter and reflections.
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Other

University of California: Acoustics for Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the acoustical features of a room and their effects upon the perception of sound. Topics such as absorption, reflection, and reverberation are clearly discussed and cleverly illustrated.
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Other

P.u.e.m.a.c.: Galeria De Transformaciones

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Enjoy constructions created by rotations, reflections and translations. [Requires Java.]
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Unit Plan
Clark University

Clark University: Dave's Short Trig Course: Transformations of the Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site that focuses on planar pattern and transformations within geometry. It also identifies different kinds of symmetry.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Student Writing Through Critical Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for a lesson about writing draft letters, or reflective letters about pieces of writing that students are submitting to an instructor. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...