8th Grade Transformations Unit
This unit corresponds with Chapter 2 in our "Big Ideas" textbook series.
Classroom Links:
- Big Ideas blue Chapter 2 online resources
- Lesson 1 videos from BigIdeas
- Lesson 2 videos from BigIdeas
- Lesson 3 videos from BigIdeas
- Lesson 4 videos from BigIdeas
- Lesson 5 videos from BigIdeas
- Lesson 6 videos from BigIdeas
- Lesson 7 videos from BigIdeas
Additional Resource Links:
- Transformations video from StudyJams
- Congruent Figures step-by-step from StudyJams
- Similar Figures step-by-step from StudyJams
- Interactive online Tessellation Creator using translations
- Wikipedia entry explaining "tessellations"
- World of Escher tessellation contest and directions for 3 ways to tessellate
- Finding the Measure of Central Angles in a figure that has rotational symmetry
- Mini-Project on Translations, Rotations, and Reflections from PPerfect Squares
- Student Examples and Directions for mini-project on translations, rotations, and reflections