"Dilations Garden" Design Project | Transformations Activity
Your students will love this hands-on Dilations Garden Math Project! Perfect for reinforcing students' understanding of transformations (dilations) in a real-world context, this engaging activity allows students to create an enlarged garden design using geometric shapes and a variety of scale factors.
Students will work with a variety of garden features (such as flowers, benches, and fountains) and practice dilating them to create a proportional final design. This project is ideal for 8th-grade students studying transformations, providing a fun and creative way to explore dilations while improving their graphing skills on a coordinate grid.
Very Low Prep!
Materials needed:
*Scissors
*Glue
*Ruler
*Colored Pencils or Markers
This project took my class 3, 50-minute lessons to complete.
What's Included:
Pre-Image Design Sheet (coordinate grid)
Final Design Sheet for plotting the dilated coordinates
Garden Features with corresponding scale factors
Table for recording pre-image and dilated image coordinates
Detailed Teacher Instructions
Editable Marking Guide
Answer Key
Key Learning Objectives:
Apply scale factors to dilate various geometric shapes
Practice plotting coordinates on a coordinate plane
Understand how dilations are used in landscape design
You will love the creativity!
Your students will love this hands-on Dilations Garden Math Project! Perfect for reinforcing students' understanding of transformations (dilations) in a real-world context, this engaging activity allows students to create an enlarged garden design using geometric shapes and a variety of scale factors.
Students will work with a variety of garden features (such as flowers, benches, and fountains) and practice dilating them to create a proportional final design. This project is ideal for 8th-grade students studying transformations, providing a fun and creative way to explore dilations while improving their graphing skills on a coordinate grid.
Very Low Prep!
Materials needed:
*Scissors
*Glue
*Ruler
*Colored Pencils or Markers
This project took my class 3, 50-minute lessons to complete.
What's Included:
Pre-Image Design Sheet (coordinate grid)
Final Design Sheet for plotting the dilated coordinates
Garden Features with corresponding scale factors
Table for recording pre-image and dilated image coordinates
Detailed Teacher Instructions
Editable Marking Guide
Answer Key
Key Learning Objectives:
Apply scale factors to dilate various geometric shapes
Practice plotting coordinates on a coordinate plane
Understand how dilations are used in landscape design
You will love the creativity!
Your students will love this hands-on Dilations Garden Math Project! Perfect for reinforcing students' understanding of transformations (dilations) in a real-world context, this engaging activity allows students to create an enlarged garden design using geometric shapes and a variety of scale factors.
Students will work with a variety of garden features (such as flowers, benches, and fountains) and practice dilating them to create a proportional final design. This project is ideal for 8th-grade students studying transformations, providing a fun and creative way to explore dilations while improving their graphing skills on a coordinate grid.
Very Low Prep!
Materials needed:
*Scissors
*Glue
*Ruler
*Colored Pencils or Markers
This project took my class 3, 50-minute lessons to complete.
What's Included:
Pre-Image Design Sheet (coordinate grid)
Final Design Sheet for plotting the dilated coordinates
Garden Features with corresponding scale factors
Table for recording pre-image and dilated image coordinates
Detailed Teacher Instructions
Editable Marking Guide
Answer Key
Key Learning Objectives:
Apply scale factors to dilate various geometric shapes
Practice plotting coordinates on a coordinate plane
Understand how dilations are used in landscape design
You will love the creativity!