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Op Art and Contrast
Seventh graders create Op art designs by reading web information through FlingIt, mapping learned concepts with PicoMap, and creating how-to examples of their own Op art design by using Sketchy. They complete the lesson by creating their...
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Op Art and Contrast
Seventh graders explore the Op art movement and the work of artists Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely and MC Escher. the principles of contrast and how it can be used to create optical illusions is examined in this lesson.
Illustrative Mathematics
Regular Tessellations of the Plane
Bringing together the young artists and the young organizers in your class, this lesson takes that popular topic of tessellations and gives it algebraic roots. After covering a few basic properties and definitions, learners attack the...
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How Do you Feel?
Students discover how moods and perceptions can be affected by colors. As a class, they create their own color wheel and identify primary and secondary colors. They draw their own cool and warm color mosaic and discuss how each one of...
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Tessellation
Students create an art piece incorporating tessellating shapes, translational symmetry, reflectional symmetry,and or rotational symmetry. They are asked if they know the definition of tessellation. If so, students are asked what shapes...
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Quilts: Patterns of Our Past Leading Us Into Our Future
Students examine the history of quilt making. They explore the pattern, designs, and color schemes of the quilt. Students read stories about quilting. They create a story to further develop into a story quilt. Additional cross...
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Terrific Tessellations
Students construct tesselations that fosters their ability to create, transform, and critique their own piece of work. This allows them to become aware of repeated patterns in math, and connect these patterns to artwork.
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Creating Tessellations
For this creating tessellations worksheet, 10th graders solve 2 word problems that include creating various tessellations. First, they explore the various techniques used to form tessellations, including triangles, quadrilaterals,...
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Making Patterns - Create, Analyze, and Predict
Fourth graders practice making patterns using Unifix cubes and identify, analyze, and determine rules for describing numerical patterns involving operations and nonnumerical growing patterns. They also find an example of a pattern in...
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Terrific Tessellations
Students create, transform, and critique their own piece of artwork. In doing this lesson, students get more experience working with angles, lines, and measurement. They gain experience seeing, and creating their own patterns and shapes.
Other
World of Escher: House of Stairs
This site provides an image of M.C. Escher's famous lithograph, "House of Stairs," which can be enlarged by clicking on it. Included is a quote, which briefly explains how this piece of art introduces "[a] playful element" to "the...
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: M. C. Escher
This resource provides a very informative biography as well as a gallery with 15 pictures of great Escher art.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: m.c. Escher
An awesome review of the M.C. Escher exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. There are 24 images of Escher's works here out of the 330 that the National Gallery has on hand. There is also a biography on Escher that is very useful.
Other
M.c. Escher Pages
This personal site offers a brief biography and links to more extensive ones, some examples of the artist's works, and an extensive array of links to other Escher sites.
Other
World of Escher: Escher Chronology
Part of the World of Escher site, this page contains an in depth chronology of Escher's life.