Tessellations & Transitions.

Cassidy, Joan

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ERIC Number: EJ574479

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Tessellations & Transitions.

Cassidy, Joan

Arts and Activities, v123 n5 p42,66 Jun 1998

Describes two sixth-grade lessons on the work of M. C. Escher: (1) the first lesson instructs students on tessellations, or tiles that interlock in a repeated pattern; (2) the second lesson explores Escher's drawings of transitions from two- to three-dimensional space. (DSK)

Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Color, Creative Art, Freehand Drawing, Geometric Constructions, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Painting (Visual Arts), Spatial Ability, Student Projects, Symmetry, Tessellations

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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