Reflection and Rotational Symmetry Hands-On Activity with Cut-Out Shapes
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Help students reflect and rotate a figure onto itself with this engaging practice for reflection and rotational symmetry! This hands-on discovery lesson will help them understand lines of symmetry and degrees of rotation with different polygons.
Students cut out and physically work with each of 10 shapes to find lines of symmetry and minimum degrees of rotation to carry it onto itself.
They create a poster, ordering the shapes by their lines of symmetry and degrees of rotation. These look great displayed on the classroom wall!
A digital version is provided in Google Slides.
For online learning, students can manipulate shapes digitally by reflecting and rotating on their devices to experiment with reflection and rotational symmetry. You will get a link in the download to copy the file to your Google Drive for Google Classroom.
This activity can be used in class with partners, or it would work for an individual project. The activity can be used as a discovery lesson for students to gain understanding of symmetry with reflections and rotations.
I love hands-on activities in math class, especially for geometric concepts. I hope you find this resource useful in your classroom.
Standard:
HSG.CO.3 Given a rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, or regular polygon, describe the rotations and reflections that carry it onto itself.
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