Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Translations, Reflections, and Rotations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers are introduced to translations, reflections, and rotations and how to explore them in real-world scenarios.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Ding! Going Up? Elevators and Engineering

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create model elevator carriages and calibrate them, similar to the work of design and quality control engineers. Students use measurements from rotary encoders to recreate the task of calibrating elevators for a high-rise...
Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Tessellations and Transformations

For Students 6th - 8th
Investigate tessellations using this interactive Learn Alberta math resource. Students will explore transformations, namely line symmetry, rotation symmetry, and translation occurring within a tessellated pattern. Be sure to follow the...
Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transformations, Rotations, Dilations 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This StudyCards stack tests students' understanding of translation, transformation, symmetry, dilation, and rotation of a point to form images. Teachers require TI StudyCards Creator Software and students will need the StudyCardApp on...
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...
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.
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...
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.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Rotational Kinematics and Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This module is the introduction to model rotational motion. All of the concepts are conveniently recast into forms that have the same mathematical forms as their translational counterparts.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Cemc: Geometry and Spatial Sense: Transformations [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Accompanied by links to online activities and demonstrations, middle schoolers learn about the different types of transformations on a coordinate grid through this lesson plan. The lesson is designed to match the Grade 7 Ontario...
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Types of Transformations Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Transformations move and modify geometric shapes. There are several types of transformations that all transform figures in different ways. These transformations can...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Rotation, Reflection, and Translation in Dance

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students choreograph a dance figure by creating a dance graph with descriptions of rotation, reflection, and translation; perform it for their classmates; and translate a classmate's dance map into a performance. Media...
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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Rigging Translation Deformers

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students practice adding translation deformers to a rig to make the lamp joints rotate and then answer 7 quiz questions.
Website
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore rotational kinematics and dynamics. Some topics examined in the activities are rotational inertia, kinematics, and translational motion. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam...
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."
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Geometric Translations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students learn how to translate a figure. They examine guided notes, review examples, watch instructional videos, and try practice problems.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 8.1 Circles and Similarity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how similarity transformation is one or more rigid transformations (reflection, rotation, translation) followed by a dilation.
Activity
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Plane Geometry: Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore transformations of a polygon that include: 1) translation 2) rotation 3) reflection and 4) dilation.
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.