Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art, Geometric Design: Learning Activities
Examine the principles of geometric design that are the basis for the beautiful and intricate patterns in the art of the Islamic world.
TES Global
Tes: Maths and Islamic Art & Design
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of design and shape templates from the Maths and Islamic Art & Design sections of the Victoria and Albert Museum. It provides the following templates: Islamic circular grid,...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Complex Geometry of Islamic Design
In Islamic culture, geometric design is everywhere: you can find it in mosques, madrasas, palaces, and private homes. And despite the remarkable complexity of these designs, they can be created with just a compass to draw circles and a...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Design Process: Creating a Stronger Truss
This is an interesting project that explores which geometrical shapes make the strongest bridge truss structures. It is a good introduction to the engineering design process. You'll design three different trusses, and use online...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Introduction to Transportation Engineering
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the importance of highway transportation. Webpage includes forty-one lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary...
Crayola
Crayola: Mandala Geometry
Combine geometric designs while honoring the entire universe. Discover how colors and shapes have meaning in traditional mandala art forms.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Exhibit Design Challenge
From the San Francisco 49er's Museum Education Program which promotes STEAM concepts, students construct a three dimensional (3-D) artifact stand that is the exact replica of "The Catch" which is 70 inches high. Emphasis is placed on...
Smithsonian Institution
The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Geometric Swimming Pools
Students will design swimming pools in the shape of polygons on grid paper with two vertices given.
Thinkport Education
Math by Design: Pythagorean Theorem [Pdf]
Use right angle concepts to solve problems amid geometric relationships.
Thinkport Education
Math by Design: Transformations/translations [Pdf]
A lesson plan aiding learners in the comprehension and practice of geometric transformations.
Other
Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Colors, Shapes, and Spaces of Mosques
A series of five lesson plans designed to give learners a working knowledge of Islamic architecture and styles of decoration as manifested in mosques. Although aimed principally at teachers, lessons are accompanied by useful summaries of...
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Patterns and Picture Books
CarolHurst.com provides a sample chapter from Picturing Math, which teaches geometric concepts using picture books and activities.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Mondrian Style Painting (Lesson Plan)
At this site students are encouraged to create a Mondrian style painting which will consist of geometric shapes and primary colors.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Multicultural Math Fair: Navajo Burntwater Designs
Simple lesson designed to help students learn the geometric concepts of translation, reflection, and symmetry by creating Navajo weaving patterns. Includes templates and instructions and is available in English and Spanish....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Geometric Quilts
Students will use a square to investigate other polygonal shapes that can be formed. Students will work with these polygons to make designs that will later constitute cooperatively designed quilts. The quilts will be made by translating,...
Other
Bright Productions Web Designs: Shape Game
You will enjoy this shape game. It tells you the name of a shape and all you have to do is click on the correct shape. If you get confused you can have another try.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Islamic Arts and Literature
An introduction to the art and literature that were produced during the Islamic Golden Age. A brief look at Islamic calligraphy, mosaics, geometric designs, and the story behind the 1001 Tales of the Arabian Nights.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Building Graduation Caps
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students build geometric models of graduation caps using stiff paper. The activity requires the application of skills in finding surface area, understanding similarity, knowing the...
Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain
Red Escolar: La Tradicion Kolam
In Spanish. Drawing the Kolam figures is an important part of the Tamil Nadu culture in southeastern India. But with their orderly and often highly symmetrical designs, which frequently group into families, Kolams are also expressive of...
Other
The Actuarial Foundation: Math Academy: Can You See It in Nature? [Pdf]
Learners will build, extend, describe, predict, graph and generate rules for patterns and functions designed to help students understand the connection between geometric and numerical patterns (younger learners) as well as between...
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Sorting Shapes [Pdf]
This task challenges a students knowledge of 2-dimensional geometrical shapes to sort shapes and to design a shape that has a given set of attributes.
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Art Tessellations
Looks at tessellation artists, including M.C. Escher, Robert Fathauer, and Roger Penrose. This is followed by a discussion of fractals and their similarities and differences to tessellations, and links to lessons and resources on...
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