In geometry I applied transformations by designing a video game with 3 levels. After designing my video game, I turned the video game into an animation. The goal of my game was to show how the orange juice can travel distances by using different transformations. In order to complete my game, translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations had to be used. It was important throughout the process that we remembered the differences for each transformation. Translation is when you can move an item in any direction. Rotation is when you can rotate the item in any direction. Reflection is when you flip the item over a line. Dilation is when you make the item smaller or larger.
In World History I learned about religion and the history of stained glass.
In the first century AD, wealthy Romans began to install stained glass windows in their dwellings. Some of the first parts of a stained glass window dating from 686 AD were discovered at St. Paul's Monastery in Jarrow, England. The history of stained glass can be traced back to the Roman Empire. Benedict Biscop commissioned French artisans to construct 8the stained glass for the monastery's windows. Stained glass was created by heating potash and sand to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. It was documented in British monasteries as early as the 7th century.
In Geometry I learned about the properties of parallelograms and used the properties to design a piece of stained glass. The inspiration for my stained glass was a locker. We realized that lockers have plenty of shapes and many people don't recognize that so we did a locker. The shapes I included in my design were circles, squares, rectangles, rhombus, triangles, & parallelograms. I made sure that my parallelograms abided by the properties of parallelograms which are opposite sides are parallel, opposite sides are congruent, opposite angles are congruent, consecutive angles are supplementary & diagonals bisect each other