This document provides resources for integrating technology into a unit on tessellations for grades 5-6. It outlines Internet resources like websites, blogs, videos and podcasts that can help teach students about tessellations. These include examples of tessellations in art and nature. The document also lists specific math websites and software that allow students to explore and create tessellations in an interactive way. It provides a general outline of the topics covered in a tessellations unit and suggests how social media and collaboration tools can engage students.

1. Tessellations
Resources and Materials to
Support a Technologically
Integrated Unit
Grades 5-6
By: Morgan Pellecchia

2. Technology Integration
 Rationale
 Tessellations are a topic in geometric mathematics that
has the potential to truly engage students. Technology
can aid in engaging students by showing a variety of
examples in different contexts and complexities,
providing programs for mess free creation and
exploration, as well as integrating the math topic to
the world of art. This presentation aims to explore
these ideas.

3. Internet Content
 The internet provides many resources and programs
that can be used to aid in educating students about
tessellations. The following slides show various
examples from the Internet that provide students
information about what tessellations are, how to
create them, and where they can be found in the
world around them.

4. Internet Reliability
 All resources used in this presentation are
educational and reliable sources. The websites can
be accessed by clicking on hyperlinked words, on
pictures. Addition resources are included in the
foot notes.

5. Internet Blog
 This blog is an example of an excellent way
to integrate the mathematical topic of
tessellations with the arts. Not only does it
provide instruction on the construction of
tessellations but the blogger also provides
some examples of Spanish architectural
tessellations.
 http://thehtessellations.html
elpfulartteacher.blogspot.com/2010/11/

6. Content From YouTube
Right: Reptiles by Escher, showing
students some of the tessellation work
of Escher
Below: Photograph of Geometric
Tessellation creation using graphing
paper. Linked to video to show student
how to create a tessellation.

7. Podcast
Pocasts can be a very useful
educational tool. The
following podcast can be
used in the classroom
tofurther enlighten students
on how Escher created his
artistic tessellations.
Escher’s art is brken down
to its geometric base to
show students how they
were created.
Robert and Chelsea
Harrington:
Season 1 – Episode 9 Tessellations

8. Teaching Materials
 Illuminations.nctm.org provides excellent resources for
any educator preparing a lesson on tessellations. The
materials that I found handy include a worksheet on
tessellations and regular polygons, as well as the
tessellation creator which is used to complete the
worksheet.

9. Teaching Materials 2
 Another resource that will aid educators in teaching
tessellations is the Amaziograph application, available
for the apple products such as Ipads. This app allows
them to create and kaleidoscope effect different
tessellations
 To review vocabulary, I would use a site to make my own
wordsearch puzzle with clues listed as definitions.

10. Inspiration
Geometry
TESSELLATIONS
Regular
polygons
Symmetry
Tessellations
in art
How to
create a
tessellation
Create!
9 by Inspiration Software®, Inc.
Tessellations
in Nature
This chart shows a
general outline of the
route we would take in
class in order to get to
students creating
tessellations of their
own. Under the unit of
geometry, the topic
would be introduced
with its multiple
components.

11. Subject Specific Resources
 There are many resources on the Internet that are
available specifically for those exploring the area of
math. One site, Interactive Math Online, leads to a
variety of sources that can cater to many areas of
interest. Through this site, my students can explore
Totally Tessellated, a site that explores tessellations.

12. Uses of the Internet
Shodor is an
interactive site used
to assist in the
teaching of many
subjects. Students
would be able to use
this website to learn
and explore
tessellations further,
while also visiting
addition interactive
mathematical sources.

13. Uses of the Internet
The Geometry Center
provides an entire list
of computer software
resources for anyone
interested in exploring
the topic of
tessellations. These can
be referred to by both
students and teachers
and will provide further
materials for students
to learn with

14. Web 2.0
Global Scholar is a resource that students can use if there
is something that they don’t quite understand regarding a
topic. There are E-Tutoring services available for
homework help and a Class of 1 environment is provided.

15. Web 2.0
Schoolology can be
used in order to
incorporate
student’s
knowledge and
preference for
social netowrking
into the classroom.
Students can
access the
materials provided
in this presentation
on their
Schoolology page
and will not fall
behind if they miss
school while sick.

16. Slideshare
 Check out this presentation on Slideshare!!