Rock Art (Transformations)
Create your own rock art with ancient symbols. Each symbol can be translated, rotated, and reflected. After exploring each type of transformation, see if you can use them to match ancient rock paintings.
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Create your own rock art with ancient symbols. Each symbol can be translated, rotated, and reflected. After exploring each type of transformation, see if you can use them to match ancient rock paintings.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Recognize and describe translations, rotations, and reflections.
- Predict the result of applying one of these transformations to an image.
- Use transformations to manipulate an image.
- Given a preimage, identify transformations that will result in a given image.
- Provide different combinations of transformations that will result in the same image.
VOCABULARY:
- clockwise, congruent, counterclockwise, image, preimage, reflection, rotation, transformation, translation
LESSON MATERIALS:
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Rock Art (Transformations) Vocabulary Sheet-Translated into French
This is the Rock Art (Transformations) Vocabulary Sheet in French
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Rock Art (Transformations) Teacher Guide-Translated into French
This is the Rock Art (Transformations) Teacher Guide in French.
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Rock Art (Transformations) Student Exploration Sheet-Translated into French
This is the Rock Art (Transformations) Student Exploration Sheet in French.
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Rock Art
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Vocabulary terms
Vocabulary with pix on larger sheets - to use for introduction
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User Recommendations (2):
This is a wonderful and colorful visual explanation of translations, etc. It makes it very easy for my ESE students to 'see'. Thank You!!
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I like to use this Gizmo for introduction and extension on Transformations.
Recommended for: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade MathGizmo User from Virginia