Exploring Tessellations

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Exploring Tessellations

Description:

In these activities, students learn about tessellations and how to create them. They learn to tessellate with one shape, two shapes, and finally with three dimensional (3-D) shapes.

Education Levels:

1, 2, Kindergarten

Subject:

Patterns, Visual Arts, Geometry

Resource Type:

Activity

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Exploratorium

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Keywords:

Tiling, Patterns, Tessellations, Geometric shapes

Mediator:

Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Exploratorium

Is Part Of:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/geometryplayground/

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Arts, Mathematics

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Idaho State Achievement Standards K-12 in Mathematics (2001)

271. Concepts and Principles of Geometry.

Standard 01. The student will apply concepts of size, shape, and spatial relationships.

a. Recognize, name, build, draw, compare, and sort two- and three-dimensional shapes.

Conforms To

Minnesota Academic Standards Mathematics K-12 (2003)

V. Spatial Sense, Geometry, and Measurement

B. Geometry

Standard: Use attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes to identify them and distinguish between them.

1. Investigate and predict the results of putting together and taking apart two- and three-dimensional shapes.

Conforms To