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Using Optical Illusion Brain Teasers Add a Twist to Math and Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Optical illusion activities can provide a motivating way for students to explore math and science concepts.
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Curated OER

Investigate the Rigid Motions of Reflection, Rotation, Translation, and Dilation

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate the rigid motions of reflection, rotation, translation, and dilation. This investigation be accomplished through classroom instruction and exploration using Geometer's Sketchpad.
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Tessellations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify shapes that will tessellate. They construct a tessellation using transformations. Students identify transformations in tessellations. They identify applications of transformations such as tiling and fabric design.
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Geometric Transformations

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students solve problems involving transformations of geometric figures. They review graphing points in the coordinate plain, plot points and connect to create a triangle. Then, they reflect triangles over the x and y axis and use...
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Pattern Matching

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine how to determine the lines of symmetry in pictures, shapes, and patterns by completing the lessons in this unit. They make patterns that show a line of symmetry and describe it using their own language.
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Curated OER

In The Garden

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine symmetry and transformation concepts. They create patterns that translate, reflect and rotate. Students participate in a variety of activities that explore transformation concepts through the context of a garden.
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Congruent figures

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
In this congruency worksheet, students complete problems dealing with congruent and non-congruent figures. Students complete 5 short answer and multiple choice problems.
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Congruence Activity

For Students 5th Standards
In this congruency worksheet, 5th graders complete 4 questions about congruent figures and transformations. Page has links to additional activities.
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Transformations and Translations

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
In this transformations/translation learning exercise, students draw transformations based on shapes and vectors of given translations. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Tessellations

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners form repeating patterns using tessellations. In this tessellations lesson, students identify shapes and illustrate three types of transformations. A website is included with the lesson which provides extension activities and...
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Curated OER

Ecology - Biodiversity Lab

For Teachers 9th
Studnents examine the degree of biodiversity that exists in one's everyday environment, in order to develop an understanding of how scientists classify organisms and to explain why biodiversity is important for living things.
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Making Shapes

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders construct geometric figures using compasses and protractors.
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Fold and Cut

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore line symmetry and the names and attributes of two-dimensional mathematical shapes. They study the context by folding and cutting out shapes to make a series of mathematical shapes.
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Curated OER

Family Activity: Triangles and Quadrilaterals

For Students 6th - 8th
In this triangles and quadrilaterals worksheet, students solve 7 short answer problems. Kids find objects around the house that are constructed from triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, squares, rectangles. Students sketch the object...
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Curated OER

Transformations

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders recognize, perform and derive rules for basic transformations including translation, reflection and rotation. They also consider compositions, a combination of two or more basic transformations. Students explore both...
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Curated OER

Identifying Points in the Coordinate Plane

For Students 6th - 9th
In this ordered pairs instructional activity, learners identify 6 ordered pairs given a coordinate plane.  Students list the ordered pair given the graph.
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Curated OER

Plotting Points

For Students 7th - 9th
In this middle school mathematics/Algebra I worksheet, students plot points on a coordinate plane.  The one page worksheet contains six problems.  Answers are not provided.
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Symmetry In Nature

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the symmetry that is found in nature. They view shapes and patterns in nature while looking at images. Students look for tessellations while obtaining photographs with a digital camera. The information is used for...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Reflections

For Students 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize reflections as flips and also identify lines of reflection. Includes lots of examples, as well as review exercises. Other sections of the tutorial offer...
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Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Composition and Glide Reflections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Resources to supplement classroom instruction of transformations and reflection. Lesson pages offer definitions and examples of composition of transformations and glide reflections. A practice page has a nine-question quiz. There are...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 2.5 Geometry Software for Reflections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
See how geometry software expresses geometric shape reflections.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 2.4 Reflections

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the rigid transformations of shape reflections.
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Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Line Reflections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Regents Prep site contains numerous problems concerning line reflections. Each multiple choice problem contains a short explanation.
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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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