Student Resources

Unit 6

Activities

1 Image Tool
The user can measure angles, distances, and areas in several different images (choices include maps, aerial photos, and others). A scale feature allows the user to set the scale used for measuring distances and areas. Unique!
2 Properties of Polygons
This activity allows students to organize polygons on a property chart.

eText

3 Glencoe Mathematics: Applications
These are companion resources to the MSM I textbook and include: parent and student study guides, lesson-by-lesson review quizzes, research sources for chapter projects, interdisciplinary research information, career connections, interactive vocabulary games, and more.

eTools

4 Reflection Tool
With this virtual manipulative you can create objects with pattern block pieces and explore Reflections as transformations of the plane.
5 Rotation Tool
With this virtual manipulative you can create objects with pattern block pieces and explore Rotations ("Turns") as transformations of the plane.
6 Shape Tool (NCTM)
Draw, color, paste, slice, rotate, reflect, expand, and contract any shapes that you can create.
7 Translation Tool
With this virtual manipulative you can create objects with pattern block pieces and explore Translations ("Slides") as transformations of the plane.
8 Triangle Tool (Congruent Triangles)
This manipulative allows you to construct two triangles from various combinations of sides and angles.
9 Turtle Geometry-NLVM
An activity that will help students understand the concept of rotation. Students will help a turtle move through a maze.
10 Visualizing Transformations (NCTM)
Rotations; translations, or slides; and reflections, or flips, are geometric transformations that change an object's position or orientation but not its shape or size. The interactive figures in this four-part example allow a user to manipulate a shape and observe its behavior under a particular transformation or composition of transformations.

Games

11 Geometric Terms
On-line games, including Concentration, Matching and Flash Cards, using geometric terms
12 Shapely Pairs
Memory Game using different types of triangles.
13 Transformation Golf
Explore the concepts of translations, reflections, and rotations with this interactive golf game.

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14 11-8
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
15 9-2
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
16 9-3
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
17 9-3A
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
18 9-4
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
19 9-4
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
20 9-6
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.

Tutorials

21 Construct a Triangle Given Two Angles and the Included Side (ASA)
How to construct a triangle when given the length of one side and the measures of the angles on each end of that side, using only a compass and straightedge. This is sometimes called an ASA triangle construction (angle-side-angle).
22 Construct a Triangle Given Two Sides and Included Angle (SAS)
How to construct a triangle when given the length of two sides and the measure of the included angle, using only a compass and straightedge. This is sometimes called an SAS triangle construction (side-angle-side).
23 Exploring Angle Sums
In this investigation, you will explore the sum of the interior angles of triangles, quadrilaterals and other polygons using rotations of 180° about a midpoint.

Unit 7

Activities

1 Area Explorer
This activity allows users to test their skill at calculating the area of a random shape.
2 Building a Dog House
Hands-on activity for students to design and determine the area of a dog house.
3 Geometry: That's Interesting
Cooperative activity where each member creates a figure with the same perimeter.
4 How High?
Learn about conservation of volume by pouring a liquid from a container to a differently shaped container.
5 Make a Box
Students will develop a box with a given volume.
6 Perimeter Explorer
This activity allows users to test their skill at calculating the perimeter of a random shape.

eTools

7 Area Tool
This tool can be used to determine how the length of the base and the height of a figure can be used to determine its area. Explore the similarities and differences between the area formulas for trapezoids, parallelograms, and triangles.
8 Cubes
An excellent interactive applet that illustrates the volume of a rectangular prism (box). Units of single cubes, rows of cubes, or layers of cubes can be used to fill a prism.
9 Geoboard
This tool allows the student to explore area and perimeter of student created two-dimensional figures.
10 Geoboard
This tool allows the student to explore area and perimeter of student created two-dimensional figures.
11 Geoboard
This tool allows the student to explore area and perimeter of student created two-dimensional figures.
12 Geoboard Measurement
This electronic geoboard measures the area and perimeter of any shape made. What is nice is that the measures are not shown until the user clicks the Measure button. Students can be challenged to make shapes with specified areas and/or perimeters.
13 Shape Explorer
Explore the relationships between perimeter and area by calculating the area and perimeter of different figures.
14 Space Blocks
The blocks in this manipulative are obviously only 2-dimensional, but with the ability to turn blocks on-screen, to rotate a set of blocks to any desired perspective, allows students to view their constructions virtually as if they had glued a set of blocks together and could turn them in their hands.
15 Surface Area and Volume
This activity allows the user to to manipulate three-dimensional polyhedrons to experiment with surface area and volume.

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16 10-1
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
17 10-5
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
18 4-4
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
19 4-4
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.
20 4-4
Five on-line selected response questions supporting the objective.

Videocasts

21 Area of Polygons BrainPOP
Brief animated clip and selected response quiz supporting the objective.