Transformations assignment: personal business cards

*NOTE* This assignment is required for Pre-AP, and is an extra-credit option for my regular geometry students.

 Assignment, part 1: Make a business card for yourself. It must include your name and examples of at least 3 of the 4 types of transformations. The transformations must be exact! You can use Paint, PowerPoint, Flash, or any other program you like, or do it on paper and then take a picture of it or scan it in. Be creative! All images must be original. I did my example (below) in PowerPoint, using word art and the "auto shapes."


Assignment, part 2: Once you have your image, place it in a Geogebra file. (http://www.geogebra.org)Use the transformations tools to figure out the transformation rules, and label them (see my example below).


Once you finish, take a printscreen of your geogebra file and save it in Paint. You should now have two image files - your original and the print screen from geogebra. Make sure that both file names include your name, and put them both in my drop box (S:\\NTHS\shared\students\Holland Drop Box). This assignment is due by the end of class Tuesday, Oct. 4 (pre-AP students only).

Transformations Project: company logos

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You'll need to find an example of each of the four transformations (rotation, reflection, translation, dilation) in company logos. You can take your own pictures around town or use google images, but you may NOT use Chevron, Target, BP, or McDonalds.

Once you have the four images, place them one in each quadrant of a geogebra (download from http://www.geogebra.org/ ) file as I have done here.

Then, use the coordinate grid in geogebra and the transformation tools to figure out the transformation rule for each one. Type each rule directly into your geogebra file.

• Pre-AP students must include all FOUR transformation rules. 
• Regular geometry students may write the rules for whichever TWO transformations they choose.

Work individually, please.

When you finish, please take a print screen of your geogebra screen, making sure that all images and transformations rules show at once. Then go into Paint and hist "paste" or Control V. Save the image as "logo_[your name]." Then, put it in my drop box: S:\\NTHS\shared\students\Holland Drop Box.

If you need to practice and learn more about how the transformations work, try these websites:
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_296_g_4_t_3.html (dilation)
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_298_g_4_t_3.html (reflection)
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_300_g_4_t_3.html (rotation)
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_302_g_4_t_3.html (translation)

Also practice using the transformation tools in geogebra - you'll need to know how to use them for your project (which I'll tell you about later).

Here's the rubric: