Tesselations

-Squares of oak tag to create tracers -Variety of sizes and weights of paper -markers, crayons, colored pencils -scissors **
 * Materials:

-We showed the students the process of creating a tessellation stencil. ("I began with this square. I cut out this shape from the square and attached it to the opposite side to make my tracer.") -We showed the students examples of other students' tessellation creations. **
 * Opener:

-Students created multiple sizes of tracers out of oak tag -Students used tracers to create large and small tessellations -Students created patterns, pictures and game boards out of their tessellations
 * Activity Description**:

- 2 boys - 5 girls
 * Results**:

MA Frameworks Covered
- 2.G.5 Identify symmetry in two-dimensional shapes. (1,2) - 2.G.7 Relate geometric ideas to numbers, e.g., seeing rows in an array as a model of repeated addition. (1,2)