PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Rotation, Reflection, and Translation in Dance
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...
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Dueling Pinwheels (Geometer's Sketchpad)
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rigging Translation Deformers
In this lesson, students practice adding translation deformers to a rig to make the lamp joints rotate and then answer 7 quiz questions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
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...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Transmographer
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."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Geometric Translations
[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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 8.1 Circles and Similarity
Learn how similarity transformation is one or more rigid transformations (reflection, rotation, translation) followed by a dilation.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Plane Geometry: Transformations
Explore transformations of a polygon that include: 1) translation 2) rotation 3) reflection and 4) dilation.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Transformations of Graphs
Find a quick, concise explanation of the transformations of graphs: translations, reflections and rotations. Examples are given and clearly explained for each transformation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Making Conjectures About Congruence Transformations
Given geometric figures on the coordinate plane, the student will apply the definition of congruence, in terms of rigid transformations, to identify congruent figures. The student will also identify and distinguish between reflectional...
Other
Discontinuous Groups of Rotation & Translation in Plane
This site helps give the definition of what an n-fold rotation is. Also discusses other discontinuous groups of rotation and translation in the plane.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Transtar: Reflections, Rotations, Dilations and Translations
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Reflections, Rotations, and Translations
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...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Tessellations Geometry and Symmetry
This lesson plan deals with tessellations and their geometric concepts. Upper elementary and middle school students will also explore polygons, symmetry, analyze patterns and explore the role of mathematics in nature and culture.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Transformations
Get independent practice working with transformations. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Basic Terminology and Concepts: Kinetic Energy
In this site from the physics classroom, kinetic energy is defined and discussed. The equation for its computation is also given and practice computation problems are given.
Other
Center for Technology and Teacher Education:exploring and Creating Tessellations
This site is a Geometer's Sketch Pad lesson plan where students explore tessellations through reflections, rotations, and translations.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Finish Your Scene!
This activity focuses on finishing the scene by arranging items with rotation. The items that just require translation and scaling are already in place. Now you can add items that also require rotation.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Transformations
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...
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Traslaciones, Simetrias Y Giros
In Spanish. In this unit you can learn about movements in the plane: translations, symmetry and rotation.
Other
Nearpod: Transformations on Coordinate Planes
In this activity on transformations on coordinate planes, 8th graders explore dilation, translation, reflection, and rotation of shapes within a coordinate plane.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Self Check Quiz on Transformations
Students show comprehension of advanced mathematics skills in Geometry. The questions check understanding on transformational geometry. Topics include translations, symmetry, and rotations.
Other
Nearpod: Introduction to Geometric Transformations
In this lesson plan, students will learn how to describe and identify reflections, rotations, translations, and dilations.
Other
Derivation and Classification of Groups
This gives examples of classification of the differences between rotation and translation.