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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,...
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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...
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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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National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics: Properties of Quadrilaterals
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics: Properties of Quadrilaterals provides a geometric design learning module, on how to effectively teach properties of quadrilaterals which is used to develop skills in teachers to aide in...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Marble Panel With Mihrab Design
The marble panel with a mihrab, or niche, design is decorated with a lamp and two candlesticks set on a geometric and plant-like background, bearing a Naskh inscription.
Success Link
Success Link: Flying Into Spring
Here are two lesson plans that apply geometric concepts to design objects. The first involves learners as a group following step by step instructions on making a kite. After the review of geometry vocabulary, in cooperative groups the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Paper Clip
A paper clip is just over 4 cm long. How many paper clips like this may be made from a straight piece of wire 10 meters long? This high level task is an example of applying geometric methods to solve design problems and satisfy physical...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Upside Down (Pdf)
What lowercase letters read the same both upside down and right side up? If you have the answer, then you can handle this geometric symmetry math challenge. A one-page activity from the NTCM Math Challenge for Families collection....
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The Math Learning Center: Pattern Shapes
Students use pattern shapes to explore geometry and fractions, creating their own designs, or filling in outlines. As they work with the shapes students explore geometric relationships, think about angles, investigate symmetry, and...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Constructionary
The activity is designed to help learners create constructions using Geometer?s Sketchpad. The geometry tutorial consists of definitions and pictures of mathematics terms.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Malevich Kasimir
This site was created by The Web Museum, about the Russian painter and designer, Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935 CE). Provides information about his life, examples of his work, and a few links to more information.
George Eastman Museum
George Eastman House: Shapes and Shelters Discovery Kits
Find a classroom-ready annotated slideshow and lesson plans designed to introduce students to fundamental architectural concepts and to improve their skills in recognizing the structural components of architecture. Slideshow uses...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Suzanne Alejandre's Designs With Circles
In the Islamic culture, circles are considered to be a unit of measurement and the basis for the organization of space. This is illustrated at this site by a series of exercises.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Mqed: Color Harmonies and Algebra Tiles
The design project examines geometric shapes, color harmonies, and composition. An instructor sheet and student handout are included.
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