Transformations Project - Translations, Rotations, Reflections, and Dilations

This short project called "Name your Transformation" is designed to give students the opportunity to create a graphical image of their name or word of their choice and then transform it in a way that creates a fun design of their name or word. Steps and criteria are provided for students to transform the figures or letters of their name/word and justify their work. Graph paper is provided for their original image but students are encourage to complete their transformed image on a larger grid paper; especially if one is needed for a dilated image with a scale factor larger than 1.

A rubric is included for easily explained expectations for students and easy grading for the teacher. This project allows students to be creative while applying the abstract concept of transformations. This could also be used as a creative assessment at the end of a unit on transformations .