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Curated OER

Drawing to Scale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the process of drawing a picture to scale. They analyze and discuss real-life blueprints for a house, and create a scale drawing of an original invention using calculators and rulers.
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Curated OER

Tantalizing Tangrams: What Are Transformations?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the Internet to learn about transformations and tessellations.  For this geometry lesson, students use the Internet to define the meaning of reflections, translations, rotations, glide reflection and symmetry.  Students...
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Curated OER

Get in Shape with Geometry

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Using geoboards, computer programs, and hands-on manipulative materials, elementary schoolers engage in a study of two and three-dimensional geometric shapes. This instructional activity is chock full of good teaching ideas on the...
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Curated OER

Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 38: Kool Cups

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Create geometric cups by interpreting directions, informational text, and mathematical concepts. Critical thinkers apply geometric theory (congruent shapes, patterns, symmetry) to actual directions to create a cup that holds Kool Aid....
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Improving Measurement and Geometry in Elementary Schools

Rep Tiles

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
In addition to the catchy title, this lesson plan provides upper graders an opportunity to more closely scrutinize the attributes of plane figures. In particular, they focus on the similarity of different shapes. Both whole-class and...
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Curated OER

Fun With Transformations

For Teachers 5th
Demonstrate and discuss the three types of transformations: rotation, reflection, and translation. Participate in a game which helps to reinforce and practice what they learned. Groups work collaboratively to complete the game.
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Curated OER

Design a Colonial Garden

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore botany by completing an art design activity in class. In this gardening history lesson, students identify the plants and crops utilized in the Colonial era for both food and medicine. Students utilize geometry to create...
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Virginia Department of Education

Transformations

For Students 8th Standards
Geometry in life-sized dimensions! Using enlarged graph paper, pupils perform a series of transformations. By recording the initial and final placement of the images, they are able to analyze the patterns in the coordinates during a...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Transforming Congruent Figures: Post Test

For Students 6th - 8th
In this transformations worksheet, learners complete multiple choice questions about the transformations of congruent figures. They complete 10 problems.
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Curated OER

Shaping Up!

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergartners are introduced to basic shapes. Learners spend 45 minutes a day in geometry centers carrying out the activities outlined in this ambitious plan. There are games, hands-on activities, interactive websites, art projects,...
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Curated OER

Transformational Geometry Using the Geometer's Sketchpad

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners complete a webquest on the various types of symmetry. Using a computer, they explore the concepts of transformational geometry and identify points, segments, lines and planes. They experiment with the rotation of a quadrilateral...
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Curated OER

Scaled Rubber Band Drawings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate the process of creating a scaled rubber band enlargement of a simple drawing. They observe and discuss a teacher-led demonstration, and create a scaled rubber band enlargement of simple drawings and their invention...
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Curated OER

Surface Area

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders compute the surface area. In this surface area lesson students are given a set of problems to calculate. They compute the surface area of cubes and rectangular boxes.
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Curated OER

Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This lesson introduces students to the ideas involved in understanding fractals. They develop a sense of infinity, self-similarity and recursion and
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Curated OER

Teaching Polygons using Technology

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders utilize different types of computer programs, such as Microsoft paint and Microsoft Word to study and create different types of polygons. They use PowerPoint to create a story about a shape and others that it meets during a...
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Curated OER

How Machines Help Us Stay Healthy

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students visit different departments at a local hospital to see how machines help peoples such as the CAT scan machine. They build a model of such a machine that shows how patients are moved in and out of the machine.
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Curated OER

Introduction to Fractals: Geometric Fractals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study and observe the patterns made by the areas of the Sierpinski Triangle. Students use the computer to draw two or three iterations to discover the number patterns. Students complete worksheets based on Geometric Fractals.
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Curated OER

Junior Architects of America

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners create entries for the Architects of America contest, including a model of a futuristic structure, blueprints, a list of all plane and solid shapes in the structure, a persuasive argument paper that describes why the structure...
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Curated OER

Rep Tiles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use pattern blocks of one shape at a time to try to create a similar shape. They compare the perimeter of the new figure with the perimeter of the original shape and look for a pattern. Students use the pattern to predict...
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Worksheet
CPM

Rigid Transformations

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
In this rigid transformation learning exercise, students follow directions to translate, reflect or rotate a figure in a coordinate plane. Examples and explanations are provided at the beginning of the document. This two-page learning...
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Curated OER

Point Comparisons

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Young geometers investigate two-dimensional figures using coordinate grids. They identify polygons and draw examples of their reflection, rotation, and translation on a coordinate grid. And they complete a worksheet practicing examples...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unit 3 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 1)

For Students 1st Standards
Reinforce math vocabulary with a set of flashcards. Each card showcases a boldly typed word or a picture representation with labels. The topics are geometry related and include terms such as cones, faces, pyramids, sides, and more! 
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Handout
Charleston School District

Transformation Basics

For Students 8th Standards
Transformations are more than the process in which sports cars become fighting robots. Listed in terms of which transformations give congruent or similar figures, several resources provide definitions and examples of the four basic...
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Curated OER

Geometry Gymnastics

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners identify shapes and manipulate 2 and 3 dimensional objects. They view objects from different perspectives and review relative positions (near, far, between). They sing a shape song.

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