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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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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 instructional activity, 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 instructional activity, 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
Students form repeating patterns using tessellations. For 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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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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Family Activity: Triangles and Quadrilaterals

For Students 6th - 8th
For this triangles and quadrilaterals worksheet, students solve 7 short answer problems. Students find objects around the house that are constructed from triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, squares, rectangles. Students sketch the...
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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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Identifying Points in the Coordinate Plane

For Students 6th - 9th
For this ordered pairs worksheet, students identify 6 ordered pairs given a coordinate plane.  Students list the ordered pair given the graph.
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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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