Transformation Lab Activity
Part 1: Constructing the Figure
Questions:
a. What figure did you construct?
b) Does this figure have symmetry?
Part 2: Reflections
Questions:
a. How did reflecting figure ABCD change the original figure? (Select ALL that apply).
b. Is this an isometry?
6) What do you notice about all of the line segments? Record your observations.
Part 3: Translations
Questions:
a. How did translating figure change the original figure? (Select ALL that apply).
b. Is this an isometry?
Part 4: Rotations
Questions:
a. Using the "angle 1" slider, drag the point back and forth. What happens to the original figure?
b. Is this an isometry?
c. Rotate the object to 90˚, list the coordinates of A', B', C', and D' below.
d. Rotate the object to 180˚, list the coordinates of A', B', C', and D' below.
e. Rotate the object to 270˚, list the coordinates of A', B', C', and D' below.
f. Using the slider, will the two figures ever be in the same spot? Why or why not?
Part 5: Dilations
Questions:
a. How did dilating figure ABCD change the original figure? (Select ALL that apply).
b. Is this an isometry?