Over the years, math has got a bad rep for being a “boring” subject. However, using fun activities to teach can be a big factor in keeping your students interested in your lesson. Parallel lines cut by transversals is a great middle school math topic that can get your students to explore parallel lines and understand the pattern of angles. Keep reading to discover 15 coloring activities that will keep your students engaged when learning about this topic.
1. Vocabulary Coloring Guide
This activity is great for introducing parallel lines cut by transversals and related vocabulary. Your students can learn what alternate angles, vertical angles, interior angles, and exterior angles are by creating an appropriate visual guide with colors!
2. Doodle Notes
This creative doodle notes activity is a fun way to introduce parallel lines cut by transversals or as a review/summary activity. They can store these sheets in their student notebooks for quick reference.
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3. Color by Number Geometrical Art
How do you create the pretty geometrical figure on the right? Solve for the missing angles! Your students can use their knowledge of angle relationships to find the correct answers and associated colors. This coloring activity provides an awesome brain break for your students.
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4. Color by Number Valentine’s Day
Here’s a Valentine’s Day-themed color-by-number activity. Your students can solve for X using their knowledge of parallel lines cut by transversals to find the correct colors associated with each number.
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5. Color by Number Beach Scene
Here’s a more advanced color-by-number parallel lines activity that’s perfectly designed for middle school or high school kids. Your students can find the correct colors for the beach scene by solving the equations on the worksheet.
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6. Color by Number Gingerbread Man
Here’s another coloring activity with an assortment of questions about parallel lines and transversals. Your students can answer questions about angle measurements, identification, and solving equations to determine the correct colors for the gingerbread man.
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7. Color by Number Holiday House
Here’s another one for all my Christmas lovers out there! Your students can color and decorate the holiday house as they solve for X, missing angles, and distinguish between congruent and supplementary angles. Using the answer key they can find the correct colors to use!
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8. Color by Number Circular Art
This activity can be used as a quick assessment tool for identifying correct angle relationships and applying this knowledge through solving for missing angle values. For each question, your students can choose from the 3 possible answers to determine the correct colors for the coloring page.
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9. Color Match Halloween Activity
This Halloween-themed activity works a little differently than the previous coloring sheets. On top of solving for X and missing angles, this worksheet includes some vocabulary questions about transversals, corresponding angles, and exterior angle measures. The answers are then associated with the color of the witch.
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10. Color the Coordinates
This wonderful activity gets your students coloring grid points rather than parts of a picture. After solving each basic angle pair question for X, your students can find the colors and coordinates on the answer sheet. The complete answers will reveal a special message!
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11. Coloring Activity & Worksheet Package
This package includes notes and exercises about alternate exterior and interior angles, same-side exterior and interior angles, vertical angles, and corresponding angles. Your students can complete the coloring activity using the instructions which will test their knowledge of angle relationships.
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12. Maze, Riddle & Coloring Page
This set includes 3 different activity sheets for your students to practice their geometry skills. The coloring page involves identifying angle pairs. The riddle activity involves solving equations and the maze activity involves finding missing angles.
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13. Geometry Review Coloring Activity
This geometry review bundle includes 10 math station topics that cover parallel lines & transversals, the distance formula, angle measurements, and more. The answer sheet for each question will indicate what colors should be used to fill in the coloring page.
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14. Popsicle Digital Pixel Art
By incorporating digital activities into your classroom, you can keep learning fun and engaging. Your students can identify the angles and solve for the missing measurements to reveal the completed digital art.
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15. Minions Digital Pixel
Despicable Me is one of my favorite movies so I was thrilled to come across this pre-made digital activity! Similar to the above digital exercise, as your students correctly solve for the missing angles, the digital colors will reveal this collage of minions.
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