Tesselate Decorate

Students use a range of shapes, or combinations of shapes, to make tessellations to decorate the living room in a house.

Students choose a part of the living room to decorate and select a tessellation to make.
Students copy the pattern by moving tiles onto a work space without creating overlaps or leaving gaps, and then select a colour scheme.
After designing three tessellations, students observe their completed designs in the living room. The patterns expand automatically to fill a large space, allowing students to see the continuous multi-directional nature of tessellations.
Students can create their own designs in the play space.
The properties of tessellations are demonstrated by providing models of different tessellations of the same shape, or combinations of shapes.
A print option that captures students' experiments in the play space is included.

	Tessellate decorate: rectangles Students select one of four tessellations made from rectangles and copy it to decorate different parts of a living room.
This learning object is in development	Tessellate decorate: squares
This learning object is in development	Tessellate decorate: triangles
This learning object is in development	Tessellate decorate: rhombi
This learning object is in development	Tessellate decorate: trapesiums
This learning object is in development	Tessellate decorate: hexagons and triangles
This learning object is in development	Tessellate decorate: three shapes
This learning object is in development	Tessellate decorate: right angle triangles

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