The document outlines a lesson plan for teaching students how to create tessellations. Students will produce an original tessellation design using equilateral triangles or squares, where three symmetrical faces rotate throughout the creation. They will fold and cut index cards to make shapes, then trace and tile the shapes across a page to fill it, coloring the patterns created. The teacher will monitor students' understanding and provide assistance without solving problems for them.

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Objective:
The student w ill produce a tessellation of original design,
developed using either an equilateral triangle or a square, w here
three symmetrical faces rotate throughout their creation.
2. Big Understandings
TSW be aware of how color, line and shape will affect a
composition
3. Assessment Evidence
Assessment of student learning is an ongoing monitoring processs done while assisting students in the new learning. The teacher
w ill monitor how w ell students grasp the new concepts and assist only as needed as they progress through each step. The teacher
w ill help enough to avoid f rustration but w ill not solve every problem for them.
4. Opening Hook
The art of MC Escher along w ith LiveArtBreatheArt Blog Post 11/06/2011, “Tesselations”
YouTube Video: Escher Tesselation
5. Instructional Strategies/Student Activities
1. Fold the index card in half , crease and cut
2. Draw a design w ith a pencil along one side of the card, f rom corner to corner. Then cut.
3. Slide the cut piece to the opposite side of the card and tape. Make sure not to turn or rotate the cut piece.
4. Draw another design on one of the straight sides f rom corner to corner and cut.
5. Slide the cut piece to the opposite side and tape it
6. Start Brainstorming. Think about your shape like w hen you see clouds. What do you see in your shape? You w ill have to make
some type of artistic design out of your shape.
7. Place your shape in the corner of your sheet and trace
8. Tessellate the shape across the w hole page
9. Color the patterns created.
6. Materials/Resources
Colored Markers
Index cards
Scissors
Pencils
Tape
White Poster Board
MC Escher Tessellation YouTube video
7. Grouping Patterns
Heterogenous groups
8. Ending, Summary/Reflection
Final assessment is done by the s’s peers. When f inished tessellations w ill be put on display, they w ill be view ed as a very dif f icult
and complex endeavor, at least to those w ho do not understand how they were created.
Tessellations