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Assessment
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: General "Transformation" Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a short discussion of transformations. The discussion has few pictures and expresses the transformations in terms of relative coordinates rather than pictures.
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Handout
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Dilation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Determine the meaning of dilation through the glossary entry.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Determine the Vertices of Transformed Images

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on instructional activity uses exploration and discovery to help young scholars determine the coordinates of the vertices of various figures when translated, rotated, or reflected in a coordinate plane. The exploration phase...
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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Why Are Circles Similar?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A comprehensive lesson plan for teaching how to prove that all circles are similar by using three types of transformations.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Geometry City

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan reviews transformations in the coordinate plane while mimicking real-world planning skills. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extention as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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Handout
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Similar Figures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a clear explanation of similar figures. Discusses how they can be transformed through a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations. Explanations are supported with illustrated examples.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Transforming Matrices

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson on transforming, rotating and dilating matrices.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Making Conjectures About Similar Figures

For Students 9th - 10th
Given problem situations involving similar figures, the student will use and extend similarity properties and transformations to explore and justify conjectures about the given figures.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level electrical physics course highlighting Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Course introduces the physics of Lorentz contraction, time dilation, the "twin paradox", and E=mc2. Course features suggested readings,...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 8.1 Circles and Similarity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how similarity transformation is one or more rigid transformations (reflection, rotation, translation) followed by a dilation.
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Website
Stanford University

Stanford University: Conventionality of Simultaneity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Stanford University is on the topic of simultaneity in relativity.
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eBook
Libre Text

Libre Texts: Physics: Distortion of Space and Time

For Students 11th - 12th
If the speed of light remains a constant then time and distance change. Oh, it can be confusing! This text will help clear up the confusion. Discussion questions should serve to reinforce comprehension.and exercises
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Graphic
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Special & General Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Georgia State University provides an interesting chart form of the ideas of relativity. Column 1 - Idea, Column 2 - Experiment. Each item is linked to its own page of explanation, which is well done. A nice type of...