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 have your character collect all the fans and get to the door at the end and avoid the little Kuromi's. 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. For Dilation I had to make my character either bigger or smaller. Using Translation, I move my character up, down, right and left. Using rotation, I could make my character spin and turn. Using reflection, I could flip my character.

In World History I learned about religion and the history of stained glass. The history of stained glass started in ancient Egypt. With the use of fire, clay, and sand the Egyptians made glass. To make other various colors they used multiple metallic oxide powders. To make designs on the stained glass they made a special paint made from ground glass and iron filings, that were suspended from urine or wine. In Geometry, I’m working on designing a piece of stained glass and in World History we’re learning about the history of stained glass in religious establishments. In geometry, we’re learning about the properties of parallelograms, so my stain glass design includes different types of parallelograms such as rectangles, squares, and a rhombus. In our design we had to include 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

For my stain glass design, I’m creating a geometric flower type of shape with a diamond shape behind it and rectangles like a background. Some extra shapes are like a teardrop shape that is diagonally faced.

Above are the slides that were used for our mini project today in class. What we did was we had received some cookies and we first got some string and wrapped it around the whole cookie to get the circumference (the length of the outside of the circle) then measured the string to get the number of the circumference of the circle. Next, we cut them with a butter knife into specific angles where two were acute angles (less than 90 degrees) and the other two were obtuse angles (more than 90 degrees). Then we got a protractor and measured the angles of each of the acute and obtuse angles in the cookie pieces. The next step was the best part and that's when we got to eat the delicious cookie. Then we used the measurements from before to calculate the arc length and area of the sector. Lastly, after recording our data and calculating, we compared and contrasted our results when it came to the different cookie pieces and saw how each of the four pieces were alike and different.