"Dilations Garden" Design Project | Transformations Activity

Your students will love this hands-on Dilations Garden Math Project! Perfect for reinforcing students' understanding of transformations (dilations) in a real-world context, this engaging activity allows students to create an enlarged garden design using geometric shapes and a variety of scale factors.

Students will work with a variety of garden features (such as flowers, benches, and fountains) and practice dilating them to create a proportional final design. This project is ideal for 8th-grade students studying transformations, providing a fun and creative way to explore dilations while improving their graphing skills on a coordinate grid.

Very Low Prep!

Materials needed:

*Scissors

*Glue

*Ruler

*Colored Pencils or Markers

This project took my class 3, 50-minute lessons to complete.

What's Included:

• Pre-Image Design Sheet (coordinate grid)
• Final Design Sheet for plotting the dilated coordinates
• Garden Features with corresponding scale factors
• Table for recording pre-image and dilated image coordinates
• Detailed Teacher Instructions
• Editable Marking Guide
• Answer Key

Key Learning Objectives:

• Apply scale factors to dilate various geometric shapes
• Practice plotting coordinates on a coordinate plane
• Understand how dilations are used in landscape design
• You will love the creativity!