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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Reverberation

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial from a hypertext physics course book that discusses reverberation. Illustrated.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Applied Science and Technology 210: Electrical Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course that explores the application of electrical engineering topics. Webpage includes twenty-eight lectures from a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Lectures vary in length and...
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Translations, Reflections, and Rotations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan introduces a variety of motion geometry concepts such as translations, reflections, and rotations. Lots of interactive support for students.
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Activity
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Transformations: Revisiting Congruence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents information on the three basic transformations of figures in a plane: Reflections, Rotations, and Translations.
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Website
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Shape Preserving Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a site that discusses transformations and the processes.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Four Types of Symmetry in the Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Math Forum site gives visual examples of rotation, translation, reflection, and glide reflection with background information about each. Also gives problems to work on concerning symmetry.
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Lesson Plan
University of South Florida

Fcat: Reflection: Teacher Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students use the coordinate plane to investigate how reflections affect geometric shapes. Can be used by the student, but is also a great lesson plan idea for teachers.
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Light and Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
Rainbows and sunsets are called "atmospheric optics". They can be caused by light being absorbed, reflected, scattered, refracted, or diffracted by particles in the atmosphere. Learn all about different atmospheric optics along with...
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Activity
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Group of Symmetries

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students examine a set of transformations to determine if certain properties (such as associativity and closure) exist for equilateral triangles. Students create tables of...
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Activity
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Holt Physics: Brightness of Light

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This probeware version of the Skills Practice Lab Brightness of Light from the chapter Light and Reflection uses a light probe to measure the intensity of light at different distances from a light source.
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Activity
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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Activity
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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Activity
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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Activity
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Geoboard App

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students use the Geoboard App to measure arcs, line segments, area, and perimeter, as well as rotate, reflect, and translate objects.
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Activity
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Geometry: Translations and Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be in groups and plot given points. From the given points the students will plot the appropriate reflection or translation.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Collecting Solar Rays

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students' will use three Temperature Sensors to collect data from three solar collectors and determine which one absorbs the most heat. They will develop an understanding of the difference between absorption and...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Traveling Shapes Motion Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students describe how to move a shape from one place to another in a plane. They learn about translations, rotations, and line reflections. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Reflections

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

Texas Instruments: Shortest Distance Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a great follow-up to the Introduction to Properties in Reflections. Students may have trouble producing a scaled drawing. Using a scale of 1 to 5 works well.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Match the Graph

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to reflect points from a graph across the axes.