General guidelines

These lessons are intended to support the teaching of transformations in an interesting and motivating way. Depending on the ability of your class, you may need to work through a textbook exercise on each transformation before attempting the exercises in this scheme of work. The PowerPoints can be used as a teaching tool or as a starter depending on the ability of your class. However, these lessons must be teacher led.

I have used these resources with many classes at different ability levels. All students were engaged and preferred doing these worksheets rather than work from their books. For some classes I used the PowerPoint as examples that we did together, for others they were used as starters that the students had to do in their heads. For all lessons (apart from the enlargements lesson) I did not feel it was necessary to go through the topics in much depth prior to them completing the worksheet.

NOTE: The PowerPoint files require a version of PowerPoint that enables motion paths animation (PowerPoint 2002, or more recent versions). If you do not have these some of the animations may not work as intended. However, this should not seriously affect the quality of the presentation and should not deter you from using it.

The worksheets have been widely used and praised by other teachers in the department, who also found their classes motivated and enthusiastic about doing transformations. Please email me if you have any comments or suggestions.