TESSELLATIONS

LESSON PRESENTATION INSTRUCTIONS

SHAPE

TESSELLATIONS 

Lesson Objectives:  Students will learn about tessellating shapes.

Time Required:      1 hour

Artist: M.C. Escher, Sky & Water I, 1938 (available online)

 

Source: www.artprojectsforkids.org/2008/02/mc-escher-tessellations.html (bird)

             www.artprojectsforkids.org/2009/06/fish-tessellation.html (fish)

            The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas, pgs 154-155

Materials:

Tag board

Scissors

Tape

White construction paper

Black Sharpie

Colored pencils, markers, or crayons

Presentation:

Discuss tessellations. (There’s a book on Tessellations in the EA room.)

Procedure:

1. Give each student a 3-inch square of tag board.
2. Show how to cut and tape tag board to make a tessellating shape. (See instructions in binder: can make a bird or a fish.)
3. Align the template on the side of the construction paper and use it as a template, tracing it carefully with black Sharpie (or pencil 1^st, and then trace over at the end with black Sharpie.)
4. Keep aligning with the side of the paper to make a column. Slide the template over and it should fit perfectly into the shapes in the 1^st column: continue tracing.
5. Continue tracing until the paper is filled.
6. Color in with colored pencils, markers, or crayons.