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Curated OER

Figure This

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify congruent figures and match shapes using transformation. They work in groups, utilizing a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice identifying congruent shapes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math/Technology: Symmetry

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, using KidPix, use stamps and pencil tools to illustrate which pictures have symmetry. They add text boxes to explain their answers in math terms. Students practice skills in rotation, reflection, and translation on an...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tessellation Quilt Squares

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders design a "quilt block" that has a tessellating pattern to help create a class tessellation quilt. They describe relationships between two- and three-dimensional shapes and analyze attributes and properties of geometric...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Symmetrical Journals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars examine the concept of symmetry by studying the symmetry of symbols in a wall painting and creating journals with a symmetrical design. After a class review of symmetry and identifying the line of symmetry in several...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Mirrors

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How a mirror forms images and how to distinguish between real and virtual images, and the different types of mirrors and the images they produce.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Cylindrical Mirror

For Students 9th - 10th
In this investigation, see yourself as others see you by using a cylindrical mirror instead of a flat mirror.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Spherical Reflections

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the behavior of light that is reflected off a spherical mirrored surface.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Corner Reflector

For Students 9th - 10th
By creating a kaleidoscope using a set of hinged mirrors students can see themselves as others do! This activity uses mirrors to create multiple images of an object.
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Graphic
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Mirror Molecules

For Students 9th - 10th
Pages at this site use cartoon drawings to explain mirror image molecules.
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Website
Pennsylvania State University

Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics: Reflection From Mirrors

For Students 9th - 10th
Included here are illustrations of reflections from a plane mirror, a concave mirror and a convex mirror.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Light Travels

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the students will be experimenting to show how light shines in a straight line. They will also be experimenting to see how light reflects using mirrors. The students will be working in cooperative learning groups to carry...
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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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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Prom Night

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Understand the Law of Reflection by plane mirrors and the formation of virtual images. Use the simulation to play with variables for a variety of reflections. Further examples explaining how mirrors...
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Unit Plan
Florida State University

Florida State University: Light and Color: Reflection of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth discussion on reflection of light can be found here. Among the topics discussed include are the difference between specular and diffuse reflection, concave and convex mirrors, facets, total internal reflection, and much more....
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Primary
British Library

British Library: The Leonardo Notebook

For Students 9th - 10th
Page through one of Leonardo's notebooks, in which he works out his observations about weights, measures, reflections, and similar material matters. Interesting examples of the master's characteristic "mirror writing" and of his...
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Activity
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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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
The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute Online: On Reflection

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an activity site to learn more about reflective symmetry. In order to complete this activity you will need a mirror.
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Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Reflection

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students learn about reflection. An activity, examples, tricks, and a definition are included.

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