Rotation Teacher Resources

Students investigate the geometrical concepts of translation, reflection, and rotation. They make different observations looking for the concepts that are displayed in classroom items like floor tiles, carpet designs, and visuals hung in...

Students communicate and work in team fashion on defense. They use correct rotations on defense against a fast break or undermanned situation. In addition, they practice footwork drills, triangle shifts and "Three on Two" drills to...

In this angle and radian measure learning exercise, students find the measurement of a central angle. Students determine the speed of rotation, linear speed of a point, and radians per second. This two-page learning exercise contains...

Students practice dribbling and passing skills. In this basketball skills lesson, students rotate through a series of winter-themed stations with a partner and practice dribbling while jumping low hurdles, dribbling around "snowmen" and...

Students investigate transformations.  In this Algebra I/Geometry lesson, students explore reflections, translations, rotations and dilations.  The lesson includes examples of transformations in art, architecture, and...

Students solve the area of a cross section. In this calculus activity, students solve areas rotated and bounded by two functions. They solve using the washer method.

Students examine the Magnus effect and its history.  In this forces lesson students investigate the lift of a rotating cylinder.      

Young scholars examine how some transformations, such as reflections and rotations, do not change the figure itself, only its position or orientation.

Students are divided into 6 groups with each group rotating to a different lab. The labs can be run over the course of a few days; or spread out for a longer period of time.

Tenth graders experiment with detection techniques for black holes by modeling the rotation of galaxies with larger and larger masses in the center. They discover while some events cannot be directly observed they may be observable in...

Young scholars interpret magnetic field maps, rotate the coordinates to obtain different views, change the coordinate representation, and produce alternate graphical representations.

Seventh graders produce a tessellation of an original design developed using an equilateral triangle, where three unique symmetrical faces rotate throughout their creation.

Students rotate through 8 stations, each with a Halloween theme. The stations help develop the following skills: rolling a ball, throwing overhand and underhand, eye-hand coordination, and muscle strength.

Students rotate through ten physical fitness stations. They perform various stretching and strengthening activities for three minutes at a time.

Students revise thier partner's essay. They also write the second draft of their essay for homework. Students use the Protein Explorer web site to visualize molecules, ATP, DNA, proteins and lipid bilayer. They are able to see all the...

Students research the history of the quilt in American History and view a PowerPoint Presentation. They create a quilt square with colored paper using polygons, transformations, rotations, and reflections on the computer and on a...

Students explore patterns and sequences. Given an example of each, they discuss their observations. In groups, students participate in an "Around the World" activity where they rotate to different stations in the classroom to determine...

Students rotate through three classroom stations and identify similarities and differences between machines with and without memory, such as typewriters and computers, and illustrate how machines with memory fit into their world.

Third graders go on a mission to research three different habitats on the campus of Manchester College so that they can be part of a resuce effort. They work in groups and each group starts at a different habitat. Group one starts at...

Students create a matrix of the vertices of a triangle and produce new matrices that dilate, translate, rotate, and reflect the original triangle. After multiplying each matrix by a new scale factor, they graph the new matrix and...

Learners explore gardening and nutrition in the Rosa Parks Community Garden. They work in stations to discuss food choices, the life cycles of plants, and mini-composting. After starting in one station, they rotate to try each activity.

Pupils identify, demonstrate properly, and apply correct position and posture while working at the computer. They also demonstrate optimal posture and position at the computer workstation, including: sitting up with the arms held out...

Students identify under a microscope several different genera of protists. They discuss the three different categories of protists. Students discuss characteristics of the protists that they have already been taught. They view and...

Students observe liquids in different containers and then explore the concept that liquids have level surfaces. They identify those who are not at the center to reinforce the concept of liquid levels with a representational puzzle and...