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Curated OER

Piecing Together the Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine tikkun olam. In this religion lesson, students define the concept of tikkun olam and identify actions that they can do to help make the "perfect world." Students share ideas and post their ideas on the class web.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cracks on the Walls

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars observe the cracks in school walls and pavements. For this geometry lesson, students explore the factors to be considered before building a structure. They complete a graphing and calculation worksheet after the lesson.
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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
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Translations and Reflections of Trigonometric Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Twelve problems offer practice working with the translations and reflections of trigonometric graphs. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the...
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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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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Graphing Dilations, Reflections, and Translations

For Students 8th Standards
Given a coordinate plane, the student will graph dilations, reflections, and translations, and use those graphs to solve problems.
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Activity
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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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Geometry: Symmetry Groups and Wallpapers

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on wallpaper groups. While there are infinitely many possible patterns, they all have one of just 17 different symmetry groups. These are called the Wallpaper Groups. Every wallpaper group is defined by a combination...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Connecting Translations, Reflection, and Rotations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will investigate the relationship among the three types of rigid transformations - translations, rotations, and reflections.
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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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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Translation, Rotations, and Reflections

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Translate, rotate, and reflect figures using coordinate notation and graphing in the coordinate plane.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Reflections, Rotations, and Translations

For Teachers 8th Standards
This task uses GeoGebra software, which can be freely downloaded, to explore what happens to the line segments and angles of a triangle when it is reflected, rotated, and translated. Includes printable task sheet for students and a...
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Website
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Symmetry and Translations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This University of Regina site gives some history and definitions about translations and symmetry.
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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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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf, G Co, Trigonometric Identities and Rigid Motions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to apply translations and reflections to the graphs of the functions f(x)=cos x and g(x)=sin x in order to derive some trigonometric identities. There are also rotations 180 degrees about points on the x-axis...
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Activity
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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Activity
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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Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Transtar: Reflections, Rotations, Dilations and Translations

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
For this geometry game, students must guide Transtar, an alien spaceship, across space by applying transformations to it. At the same time, there are dangers to avoid and the number of moves and tries are limited.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Tangrams

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students use the interactive features in Activstudio to simulate translations and reflections using objects. Students develop and apply their understanding of geometric sense by...
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Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Transformations of Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of the transformations of graphs: translations, reflections and rotations. Examples are given and clearly explained for each transformation.
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Transformations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson shows elementary learners how they can know that rigid motions like reflections, rotations, and translations create a shape congruent to the original.
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Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Transformations

For Students 6th - 8th
This multimedia Learn Alberta math resource looks at real world examples of transformations found throughout West Edmonton Mall. The accompanying interactive component asks students to predict transformations through looking at...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Comparing and Explaining Transformations

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations, students will be able to develop algebraic representations for rotations and generalize and then compare and contrast the properties of congruence transformations and...
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Website
BBC

Bbc Schools: Transformations Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th
Questions related to translations, reflections, rotations, and more can be found on this quiz. Use the links provided to view the quiz in full screen, change the quiz format, review key facts about transformations, and have fun with the...

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