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Intro To Transformations

This lesson introduces 8th grade geometry students to transformations, which are changes in a figure's position, shape, or size. The 45-minute lesson has three main objectives: for students to explain what a transformation is, name different types of transformations, and decide what transformation is taking place and explain how they know. The lesson includes an anticipatory set where students trace pattern blocks after sliding, rotating, and flipping them. Then students work in groups to become experts on reflections, translations, or rotations before teaching the concepts to other groups. In the closure, students define each transformation type and are evaluated through an exit slip.

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Intro To Transformations

This lesson introduces 8th grade geometry students to transformations, which are changes in a figure's position, shape, or size. The 45-minute lesson has three main objectives: for students to explain what a transformation is, name different types of transformations, and decide what transformation is taking place and explain how they know. The lesson includes an anticipatory set where students trace pattern blocks after sliding, rotating, and flipping them. Then students work in groups to become experts on reflections, translations, or rotations before teaching the concepts to other groups. In the closure, students define each transformation type and are evaluated through an exit slip.

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Unit Title: Reflections, Translations, and Rotations

Subject Area: 8th Grade Geometry


Lesson Title: Intro to Transformations
Length of Lesson: 45 minutes
Objectives:
Students will be able to explain what a transformation is.
Students will be able to name different types of transformations.
Students will be able to decide what transformation is taking
place and explain how they know.
Standards:
Domain: Geometry 8.G
Cluster: Understand congruence and similarity using physical
models, transparencies, or geometry software.
Standard: 4. Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar
to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a
sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations;
given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence
that exhibits the similarity between them.
Anticipatory Set: (10 minutes)
Give students a sheet of construction paper and a pattern block. Lay
the pattern block on the sheet of construction paper. Have them trace
the outline of their shape. Tell the student to then slide the shape,
without rotating it, to a new position. Trace around the pattern block
again. In a new area of the construction paper, trace the pattern block
again. This time, tell the students to rotate the shape around one of its
vertices. Trace around the pattern block in its new position. In a new
area of the construction paper, trace the pattern block again. This time
have the students flip the block. Trace around the block in its new
position.
Ask the students if they know what they have done with their pattern
blocks.
In the first movement, we slid the pattern block, then we rotated them,
and lastly we flipped them.
Have the pattern blocks changed shapes? Have the pattern blocks
changed sizes?
Lesson Activities: (25 minutes)
Transformation: a change in a figures position, shape or size.

isometry: a transformation in which the preimage and image are


congruent.
Preimage: the original figure
Image: the figure resulting from a transformation
Jigsaw Activity
Number the students from 1 to 3. All of the 1s will form a
group, the 2s will form a group, and the 3s will form a
group.
Group 1-reflections, group 2-translations, group 3-rotations
Within each group, become an expert on your
transformation.
Reform groups and teach the others in the group about
your transformation.
Ask someone from group each group to explain their
transformation. Ask someone else to come to the board
and demonstrate what their transformation looks like.
Use pattern blocks on the overhead to show each transformation.
Students will determine which transformation is taking place.
Closure: (10 minutes)
Define each transformation. Students should record each definition in
their notes.
Reflection: an isometry in which a figure and its image have
opposite orientations.
Translation: an isometry that maps all points of a figure the same
distance in the same direction.
Rotation: an isometry in which a figure turns around a fixed
center point.
Can you think of a way to remember the difference between each
transformation?
reFLection=FLip
tranSLation=SLide
roTation=Turn
Evaluation:
Exit Slip: Pick one type of transformation and explain what youve
learned about it. Draw an image that shows the transformation you
have chosen.
Resources:
Construction paper
Pattern blocks
Jigsaw handouts (3 different handouts)
References:

Bass, Laurie E. "Transformations." Prentice Hall Mathematics: Geometry.


Needham, MA: Prentice Hall, 2004. N. pag. Print.

Group 1: Reflections
Reflections occur when a figure and its image have opposite
orientations. When a reflection occurs, its like the figure is flipping
over a line of reflection. A reflection is a type of transformation that
results in an image that is the same size and same shape as the
preimage; the preimage and image are congruent. A transformation
that results in congruent preimages and images is known as an
isometry.

preimage

image

Can you draw your own reflections? Then draw some non-examples of
reflections and explain why the image wouldnt be considered a
reflection of the preimage.
________________________________________________________________________
_________________________

Group 2: Translations
A translation occurs when an image maps all points of a figure the
same distance in the same direction. Translations are sometimes
referred to as slides. A translation is a type of transformation that
results in an image that is the same size and same shape as the
preimage; the preimage and image are congruent. A transformation
that results in congruent preimages and images is known as an
isometry.

preimage

image
Can you draw your own translations? Then draw some non-examples of
translations and explain why the image wouldnt be considered a
translation of the preimage.

________________________________________________________________________
_________________________

Group 3: Rotations
A rotation occurs when a figure turns around a fixed center point. A
rotation can occur either in a clockwise or counterclockwise motion. A
rotation is a type of transformation that results in an image that is the
same size and same shape as the preimage; the preimage and image
are congruent. A transformation that results in congruent preimages
and images is known as an isometry.

preimage

image

Can you draw your own rotations? Then draw some non-examples of
rotations and explain why the image wouldnt be considered a rotation of
the preimage.

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