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This two lesson unit is designed for 6-8th grade students honing their art and math skills. The purpose of the first lesson (Competency) is to introduce students to the many different posable combinations of tessellating patterns.With the use of computer programs the students will easily create and explore the production of tessellating patterns.

The purpose of the second lesson (Using the U tube video - Resource) is to give the students practice in creating handmade tessellating patterns that have been funk-a-fied but still follow the rules of tessellation's. The use of this online video resource creates the opportunity for students to view the lesson at any time it also is edited focusing on the important information. The second lesson will focus on the use of drafting tools like protractors, rulers and the creation of the funk-a-fied geometric shape templates. The final tessellation will be colored in using colored pencils and markers.

**Lesson 1 title:** Computer generated tessellation. **Generative Theme:**  We can learn how to make tessellation's and investigate the mathematical rules that define a tessellation. Explore the cultural and historical use and creation of tessellation's in design and art. **Overview:** Learn how the mathematical principles govern the creation of tessellation's. Explore __three__ different geometric layouts. (Square, Isosceles Triangle and use combination of two different tessellating Shapes). Learn how to navigate two of the website’s listed and create three tessellation's to be posted on class portfolio web sight for peer evaluation and sharing. **Understanding Goals:** We can learn the principles behind creating tessellation's. Explore the possibilities and combination of different geometric shapes that tesselate. Start to explore the principles behind how to make irregular margins on geometric tessellating shapes. Explore how to use web based programs aiding in the creation of tessellation's. Practice posting digital class assignments on line. **Generative Questions:** Dose color theory play a roll in creating tessellating patterns? <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Is it helpful to use these web based programs to create and understand the geometric constraints of tessellation's. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">How have tessellating patterns been used in history to express harmony and reflect cultural beliefs. (Islamic Mosaics) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">What can we learn about ourselves and others when expressing ourselves through individualizing our tessellations?

**Vocabulary:** Tessellation, triangle square, rhombus, parallelogram, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, arc of a circle, acute angles, right angles, obtuse angle, negative space and positive space.

<span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Materials Resources:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Computers, internet connection, LCD projector, Printer. <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Google. Tessellation creator <span style="color: #0225a3; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__[]__ <span style="color: #0225a3; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__[]__ http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Tessellate/

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<span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Introduction/Demonstration:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">View website as class to learn about the math, geometry and rules of tessellation's. <span style="color: #0225a3; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__[]__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Demonstrate the use of several different website tessellation programs in class by projecting instructors computer desktop. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Demonstrate how to post the tessellation's to class site. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Define what a tessellation is and present a powerpoint presentation of cultural and historical importance of tessellation's. <span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Students at Work:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">1. Students will plan their personal tessellation using at least __TWO__ different website programs available, visit web based tessellation sites listed in materials resource section of lesson plan. Students will be encouraged to add to the list of websites if they find others that apply to this lesson. Personal tessellation's could also be created using Photoshop e. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">2. Students will post their assignments on class website for discussion and review. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">3. Students will be asked to communicate their reactions to classmate presentations. <span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Closure:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">For the final review of the project, students will print out their favorite tessellation and group them into categories by geometric similarities. Fore example students using the tessellating isosceles triangle tessellation's on one display board and so on... <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The class presentation boards will be left up for display to inform students for lesson two how to create a hand drawn tessellation.

<span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Visual and Performing Arts Frameworks Concepts:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Artistic Perception: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Awareness of the many different tessellating shapes and patterns. Awareness of organic and geometric forms, and textures and patters found in nature and architecture. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Aesthetic Valuing: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Understand how tessellating patterns were used to convey harmony and nature in cultural specific structures of the past and present. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Understand how making art can be inspired by architectural innovations and solutions to human needs. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Cultural Heritage: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Understand how past civilizations are defined by their architectural embellishments and innovations. Islamic Mosaic, Tessellation's linked to mathematical innovations and the witness of tessellation's in natural forms and structures. (honey comb, plants cell walls and molecular structures). <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Creative Explorations?Creative Strategies: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Invent new or modify known tessellation's to convey personal identity expressed through exploration of color, pattern and content of graphic production of a tessellation

<span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Connections: Integrations:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Explore culturally how tessellating tile patterns were used as creative expression when religious iconography was banned. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Math (Geometry, patterns and principles behind tessellating angles and shapes) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Science (plant cell geometry) geometry found in natural structures. the use of tessellating shapes in structural engineering. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">History of civilizations and architectural innovations.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Extension: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This would be a great assignment for a math teacher as well as visual art. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Ongoing Assessments: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Observation of students at work and help students find examples of styles of tessellation's that aline with their own personality. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Students will have to define what geometric pattern they incorporated when creating their personal tessellation or elements used or whether they combined more than one style.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Summative Assessments: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Have students present their tessellation to the class explaining why they used a certain style or geometry or color combinations represent their interests. Explain which creative strategies the used in their creation. What are some of the nontraditional or fantasy additions did they make to there tessellation. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Criteria for Assessment: (Each of the four criteria will be evaluated by excellent 4, average 3, addequit 2 or needs improvement 1. )
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Understanding: Students grasp the understanding goals and the concepts of the lesson.
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;"> Effort: Care and thought are evident in all steps/artworks.
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Product: Form, Style, innovation and craftsmanship and how well did they convey the concept of the project/lesson.
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Learning and growth: Students shows increased conceptual and manual art skills, and knowledge of their use of creative strategies.

<span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Lesson 2 title:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Watch video lesson of how to create hand made tessellation and apply principles learned to create your individual tessellation. <span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Generative Theme:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> We can learn how to make tessellation's and investigate the mathematical rules that define a tessellation. Explore the cultural and historical use and creation of tessellation's in design and art. (M. C. Esher) <span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Overview:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Learn how the mathematical principles govern the creation of tessellation's. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Explore different geometric layouts. (Square, Isosceles Triangle and use combination of two different tessellating Shapes). <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Learn how to manipulate a tessellating geometric shape using drafting tools listed in materials section of lesson. <span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Understanding Goals:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We can learn the principles behind creating tessellation's. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Explore the possibilities and combination of different geometric shapes that tesselate. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Start to explore the principles behind how to make irregular margins on geometric tessellating shapes. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Practice posting digital class assignments on line by scanning or uploading a photo of your tessellation. <span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Generative Questions:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Dose color theory play a roll in creating tessellating patterns? <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Is it helpful to use these web based programs to create and understand the geometric constraints of tessellation's. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">How have tessellating patterns been used in history to express harmony and reflect cultural beliefs. (Islamic Mosaics) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">What can we learn about ourselves and others when expressing ourselves through individualizing our tessellations?

**Vocabulary:** Tessellation, triangle square, rhombus, parallelogram, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, arc of a circle, acute angles, right angles, obtuse angle, negative space and positive space.

<span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Materials Resources:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Computers, internet connection, LCD projector, Printer. <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">construction paper, scissors, protractor, compass, rulers, pencil, makers, drawing paper, digital camera and scanner. media type="youtube" key="_Lg19NvW_sU" height="390" width="480" media type="youtube" key="212XC1zfxXY" height="390" width="480"

<span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Introduction/Demonstration:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">View Utube video on how to create a tessellating pattern. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Demonstrate the use of drafting tools to create geometric shapes. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Demonstrate how to post the tessellation's to class site. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Define what a tessellation is and present a powerpoint presentation of cultural and historical importance of tessellation's. <span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Students at Work:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">3. Students will post their assignments on class website for discussion and review. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">4. Students will be asked to communicate their reactions to classmate presentations. <span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Closure:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">For the final review of the project, students will decorate the art room for all classes to see. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This is a great lesson to start the year with because it integrates math and art into a meaningful creation of pattern. <span style="color: #bd2c5c; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Visual and Performing Arts Frameworks Concepts: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Artistic Perception: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Awareness of the many different tessellating shapes and patterns. Awareness of organic and geometric forms, and textures and patters found in nature and architecture. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Aesthetic Valuing: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Understand how tessellating patterns were used to convey harmony and nature in cultural specific structures of the past and present. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Understand how making art can be inspired by architectural innovations and solutions to human needs. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Cultural Heritage: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Understand how past civilizations are defined by their architectural embellishments and innovations. Islamic Mosaic, Tessellation's linked to mathematical innovations and the witness of tessellation's in natural forms and structures. (honey comb, plants cell walls and molecular structures). <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Creative Explorations?Creative Strategies: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Invent new or modify known tessellation's to convey personal identity expressed through exploration of color, pattern and content of graphic production of a tessellation
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Students will plan their personal tessellation using information gained from lesson one.
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Students will elaborate and funk-a-fie their tessellation with prompts from the online lesson.

<span style="color: #d11610; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Connections: Integrations:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Explore culturally how tessellating tile patterns were used as creative expression when religious iconography was banned. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Math (Geometry, patterns and principles behind tessellating angles and shapes) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Science (plant cell geometry) geometry found in natural structures. the use of tessellating shapes in structural engineering. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">History of civilizations and architectural innovations.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Extension: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This would be a great assignment for a math teacher as well as visual art. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Ongoing Assessments: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Observation of students at work and help students find examples of styles of tessellation's that aline with their own personality. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Students will have to define what geometric pattern they incorporated when creating their personal tessellation or elements used or whether they combined more than one style.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Summative Assessments: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Have students present their tessellation to the class explaining why they used a certain style or geometry or color combinations represent their interests. Explain which creative strategies the used in their creation. What are some of the nontraditional or fantasy additions did they make to there tessellation. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Criteria for Assessment: (Each of the four criteria will be evaluated by excellent 4, average 3, addequit 2 or needs improvement 1. )
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Understanding: Students grasp the understanding goals and the concepts of the lesson.
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;"> Effort: Care and thought are evident in all steps/artworks.
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Product: Form, Style, innovation and craftsmanship and how well did they convey the concept of the project/lesson.
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Big Caslon'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Learning and growth: Students shows increased conceptual and manual art skills, and knowledge of their use of creative strategies.