TEC Lesson Plan
Contributor Information
Name:
Thinkquest web site Totally
Tessellated http://library.advanced.org/16661/
Suzanne Alejandre Tessellation
Tutorials http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/tess.intro.html
modified by Melissa Protomastro TEC writer
Date: July 20, 1999
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Standards
Sunshine
State Standards
Strand(s): Geometry and Spatial Sense
Standard(s) and Benchmark(s):
•The student visualizes and illustrates ways in which shapes can be combined,
subdivided, and changed.
MA.C.2.3.1 Understands the geometric concepts of congruency, similarity, symmetry,
reflections, perpendicularity, parallelism, and transformation, including flips,
slides, turns, enlargements.
NET Standards
Technology
6 - 8 T.3.3.4 Technology productivity tools
Use content-specific tools, software, and simulations (e.g., environmental probes,
graphing calculators, exploratory environments, Web tools) to support learning
and research.
Lesson Plan
Title: Tessellations: Web Based Instruction
Technology Resource Requirements
Subject Area(s): Math
Grade Level: 6-12
Short Description:
Web sites that provide introductions to tessellations and tilings. Not “just
an art activity” these give good background information into polygons,
angles, symmetry and transformations. Printable hands-on activities and instruction
in constructing tessellations with ClarisWorks,
Geometer
Sketchpad, Hypercard
(studio), PC
Paintbrush and LogoWriter.
Approximate Time Required: 3-4 days
background
information
http://library.advanced.org/16661/background/index.html
good information for teachers and students
printable hands-on activities at end of each tutorial
Where’s
the Math for teachers
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/symsusan.html
Gain Attention:
Display several examples of tessellations and have students visually
“dissect” them
Tasks
Where’s
the Math for students
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/rex.html
A step-by-step lesson plan using paper, pencil, and protractor to explore reflections
in the plane.
Students will review the appropriate sites and develop their own tessellations.
They will present their tessellations demonstrating the transformations involved
Rubric
A rubric is included for your use.