Tesselation

Learning Intention: Design and create tessellations to explore transformation.

 Procedure: Activity 1

• Open ‘Paint’. 
• Draw a parallelogram. 
• Draw an irregular along the top edge; copy and paste it to the bottom edge. 
• Draw an irregular line along the left edge; copy and paste it to the right edge. 
• Delete the original parallelogram. Give the picture some colour. 
• Copy and paste the tile to make the tessellation. 
• FINISH!  

Activity 1:

Procedure: Activity 2 

• Open Microsoft Word. 
• Look at the bottom; click draw and then draw irregular lines. 
• Copy and paste to 'Paint'.
• Copy and paste then rotate it to a 120౦ angle, repeat. 
• Draw an equilateral triangle around your 3 squiggles. 
• Copy and reflect the triangle design about one of its edges. 
• Copy the double triangle design and rotate it 120o degrees about the point marked on the diagram with a dot, repeat. You made a hexagon. 
• Use the hexagon to tile a surface. 

Activity 2: