ED 3501

Lesson Plan 3
Grade/Subject: Grade 6 Mathematics
Unit: Motion
geometry
Topic: Translations/ reflections
Date:
March 17, 2016
Length of Lesson: 60 Minutes
General
Describe and analyze position and motion of objects and shapes
Learning
Outcomes
(P.O.S.)
Specific
SLO#8: Identify and describe a single transformation, including a translation,
rotation and reflection of 2-D shapes.
Leaning
[C, T, V]
Outcomes
[ICT: C62.1]
(P.O.S.)
SLO#9: Perform, concretely, a single transformation (translation, rotation or
reflection) of a 2-D shape, and draw the image. [C, CN, T, V] [ICT: C62.1]
Learning
Students will
Objectives
1. Identify a transformation (translation/reflection) and describe
it
2. Preform a transformation a given shape
Materials

geoboards
exit slips
SMART notebook file

Procedure
Introductio
n (20 min.)

Body of
Lesson (30
min.)

1. Minute worksheet
2. Ask students what was learned last class few
classes
a. Translations
i. What does the D represent?
ii. What does the U represent?
iii. What does the L represent?
iv. What does the R represent?
b. Reflections
c. Practice with students on how to translate
an object on the SMART board
1. Review using the learn Alberta gizmo
a. http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/memg
/division02/flip%20(reflection)/index.html
b. What is happening?
i. The picture is flipped over the line
c. If students are still confused show them
using a mirror
i. We are the same distance in the
picture as we are to the mirror
2. Walk through a few examples with students on
the SMART board
1

Assessment
Methods
Preassessment:
answers to
questions
working
through
questions on
SMART board

Formative
assessment:
class
discussion
answers to
questions

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Closure (5
min.)

Sponge
Activity

a. Have students come up to the board

3. Geoboards
a. Ask students to put an elastic in the
middle, on one side ask them to place a
triangle. Ask them to use another elastic
to show the reflection
b. Ask them to place a line horizontally and
reflect it
c. Ask them to do several translation
d. Do more than one shape
4. Worksheet
a. Assessing translations and reflections
1. Exit slip assess what was taught during class.
a. What is the reflection
b. Do this reflection to this shape

Formative
assessment:
Geoboards
responses
Formative
assessment:
worksheet

1. Test with a friend on a graphing whiteboard the

concepts learned today
2. Begin teaching reflections

Formative
assessment:
answers to
questions

Resources
Alberta Education mathematics program of studies
Alberta Education mathematics achievement indicators
Learn Alberta
Reflection

Formative
assessment:
responses
to exit slips
shows
students level
of
understanding