ART LESSON PLAN

SUBJECT: TESSELLATIONS

GRADE: SEVENTH

OBJECTIVES:

MATERIALS:

Template sheet, tracing paper, pencils, erasures, markers, colored pencils, watercolors.

MOTIVATION:

PROCEDURE:

DAY ONE:

View and discuss the tessellations of M.C. Esher. Demonstrate the procedures used in designing a tessellation from a regular polygon.

1. Lay a piece of tracing paper over the template sheet and mark the four corners of one of the squares with a dot.
2. On the template sheet draw a line that extends from corner A to corner B.
3. Trace the line AB onto the tracing paper between the corresponding dots.
4. Repeat the line AB on the other side of the square between corners C and D.
5. On the template sheet draw a line between corners A and C.
6. Trace onto tracing paper and repeat at bottom of square between corners B and D.
7. Look at resulting shape and try to imagine an animal or plant that will fit. Add details.

DAY TWO:

Once the shape for the tessellation is designed the students should use a fine point marker to create a master copy with all the details. This copy will be used to trace a group of interlocking shapes on a 12 X12 piece of drawing paper.

FOLLOWING DAYS:

Once the paper is filled the final drawing will be colored with markers and pencils, or watercolors.