Dilations puzzle -Thanksgiving Transformation Art activity CCSS 8.G.A.3, 8.G.A.4

Description: This seasonal dilation puzzle is a high interest, interactive activity that will allow you to easily see if your students have mastered dilations about the origin on the coordinate plane. Students will apply the stated scale factor to the pre image coordinates to determine the post image coordinates. Then they plot the post image points to create a fun Thanksgiving picture which they can color and decorate. This activity focuses on dilations with the origin as the center of dilation, and specifically the effect of the given scale on the coordinates in a figure.
This activity can be used as an in class activity, home project or an assessment. Also perfect for math centers to review or a great activity to do when you have a substitute. It will definitely keep your class on task.

CCSS.Math.Content.8.G.A.3
Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and reflections on two-dimensional figures using coordinates.

CCSS.Math.Content.8.G.A.4
Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.

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Total Pages
8 pages
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
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