Coordinate PLANES: Paper Airplanes from Plotting Points

Graph, fold, and fly! If the students plot the points correctly and connect them to make lines as directed, their worksheets will fold up into paper airplanes.

This activity is a fun way for your class to practice graphing points from ordered pairs on a coordinate plane.

Two versions are included:
- Version One incorporates reflections of points and lines across the x-axis or y-axis.
- Version Two is more basic and all points are given as ordered pairs.

Students plot points and connect them to create lines. They answer a few questions (identifying quadrants and points) on a short worksheet, then follow the directions to fold along their lines to create a paper airplane.

Choose the version with or without reflections depending on which is appropriate for your class (or some of each for easy differentiation). Print one worksheet and one coordinate plane sheet per student.

Students get plenty of practice with plotting ordered pairs on the coordinate plane.

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Reviews from other teachers:

- Very engaging resource. My students loved the review of plotting points and the best part was the airplane race afterwards. Thanks for an awesome resource!

- I used this with 6th grade students for a fun after testing assignment. They really enjoyed making the planes and taking them outside to fly them. I purchased this late in the year but am going to use it earlier this coming school year when we are doing the actual unit. It will be a fun alternate assignment from our normal book work!

- This was a good fun activity for students to review their graphing skills and also a good activity to have on hand for subs.

- I used this resource at the beginning of the school year, 2019. I used it at the beginning of the year to emphasize following directions, building community (cheered for each others' flights), having fun (who doesn't like to fly planes?), and, oh yeah, review the coordinate plane :) Thank you!

- Used this as an extension/early finishers activity and the students had fun. It was challenging for some at first, but they were able to get the hang of it.

- How motivating is this?!? If you do it correctly, it will fly!!!

- I really enjoyed this activity. Your students need to be good at following directions in order to be successful with this activity. I may use it in the beginning of the year next year to help emphasize the importance of directions while reviewing plotting points :)

- Just completed this activity with one of my classes. It was GREAT! Challenging for them (special ed class), but engaging and fun! After making them, we had a competition to see whose plane would fly the farthest! FUN! Activity is well written and I appreciated the two options. THANKS for a great product!

- Fun activity that reinforced the concepts that we were learning.