Erasmus+ arteducation.eu Upper secondary RO2 Shape fractals

1. FRACTALS
The lesson started with the students being given somework tasks which
involved drawing different shapes like triangles, squares , then dividing them or
erasing some parts of them and repeating the process in order to obtain a
figure with the same structureat any scale. They worked in teams and
developed their English skills
Then, the teacher revealed that the students had created fractals and
explained to them the definition and the properties of the fractals, by giving
appropriateexamples of them, like Julia’s accumulation or Mandelbrot’s
snowman.
After being familiarised with the theme, the students were given a link to an
application which generates fractals with a given number of iterations, called
Illumination Fractals . With the fractal in front of them, they wereasked to
calculate its area and perimeter. This became possiblewith a C++ programme
created by a military student.
In the second partof the lesson, the students watched a shortmovie which
illustrated the infinite character of the fractals by zooming each sequence and
having some fractal music on the background.
Continuing, the students were presented the fractals in nature and art , then
some experiments whoseresults consisted also in fractals. That was the pretext
for a competition between the students who were supposed to edit some
pictures of fractals in order to create art.
Finally, they voted for the best projects and the winners weregiven some
diplomas.