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 get the candy bar to collect money. 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 slides the object, rotation rotates the object clockwise or counter clockwise, reflections reflect over the x or y axis, and dilation enlarges the object or make smaller.
In World History I learned about religion and the history of stained glass. Back in the 7th century people started building windows with colored glass to add chapels and monasteries. Stained glass were to educate people who can’t read. By looking at painted scenes in glass, people can learn about the stories about the bible and religious teachings.
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 good view point of the sun. There was a picture from google that looked similar so we just put shapes into it. The shapes I included in my design were parallelograms, rectangles, rhombi, and squares. 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, and diagonals bisect each other.