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Dick Blick Art Materials

Start with a Circle...

For Students K - 12th
The Golden Ratio. The Divine Proportion. Yup. It's math and art blended into one colorful activity. Young artists combine colored tissue paper circles and parts of circles to create geometric patterns. As a bonus, kids get to figure out...
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Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Beautiful Brain: Do You See What I See?

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
Can art play tricks on your eyes, and can a still painting really appear to vibrate? The second lesson in a four-part series discusses the way our beautiful brains translate visual images. It highlights the style of optical art and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ancient Aztecs

For Teachers 8th Standards
Is it a calendar? A religious symbol? A political statement? One thing for certain is that Aztec sun stone designs remain an important symbol in Mexican cultural art. Young artists craft their own Aztec Sun design incorporating ideas...
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Unit Plan
MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Shapes - Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Extend scholars' learning experience with a unit consisting of five shape lesson plans, an extension activity, assessment, and rubric. Begin by reading a story about shapes, then conduct an overview and assign pupils' their first...
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Activity
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Islamic Art and Geometric Design

For Teachers 7th - 12th
After an overview of Islamic traditions and art, young artists create their own geometric shapes and patterns using only a straightedge and a compass.
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Lesson Plan
American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture

Shapes in Agriculture

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
It's time to get crafty with shapes! Your future farmers demonstrate their geometric ability by building a farm using triangles, circles, rectangles, and squares. But first, scholars take part in a brainstorm session inspired by their...
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Activity
Getting to Know

Shape and Form in Art

For Teachers K - 4th
Introduce youngsters to the important role shape and form play in art with this extensive collection of activities and projects. From teaching first graders how to create mandalas to engaging third and fourth graders in the design of...
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Mrs. Burgess

End of the Year Geometry Projects

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Geometry students will be ecstatic about these engaging and enlightening end-of-the-year projects! Types of project ideas include interviewing a geometer, an ABCs of geometry poster, an engineering lab report, and origami work. 
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K12 Reader

The Art of M.C. Escher

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Show your class one way in which art and math are related by teaching them about M.C. Escher. Class members read a brief passage and then respond to five related questions.
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Activity
PBS

Using Symmetry to Create Corporate Logos

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Young mathematicians investigate the use of symmetry in graphic design. After first learning about reflection, translational, and rotational symmetry, children use this new knowledge to identify symmetry in letters of the alphabet and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Crazy for Cubes: Art and Science

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners discuss Sol LeWitt and conceptual art, then analyze the differences in expressing a concept through model-based inquiry and aesthetic art criticism. They develop a geometric, scientific, or mathematical concept, then create an...
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PPT
Curated OER

Rotational Hex Designs

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learn about the Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, Rotational Hex Design. This image-rich presentation provides a comprehensive description of the origin and meaning behind these interesting totems. Instructions to create these symmetrical...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Patterns, Patterns, Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Create geometric art in your classroom. Learners use a ruler to mark lines on their paper, they then trace a lid to create a series of circles. They color in each circle using two tones or colors to create an interesting visual pattern. 
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Curated OER

Geometry: Helix-a-Graph

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use geometry to create art. In this geometric graphing and patterns lesson, students create a helix-a-graph by plotting points on a grid that follow a certain pattern and analyze the drawing they created.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tessellation

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students investigate tessellations. Students analyze geometric figures and indicate if the shapes tessellate. Students draw and color their own tessellating pattern.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Middle Eastern Geometric Art

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine how Islamic artists represented their beliefs in logic and order through the geometric patterns in their art works. They analyze star patterns in Middle Eastern designs, and create geometric patterns using geometric shapes.
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Interactive
Math Cats

Math Cats: The Math Cats Visit Geometric Sculptor George Hart

For Students 3rd - 5th
Take a virtual tour and learn about the artwork of geometric sculptor George Hart. With information about and photos of the work and studio of the artist this is an interesting look at where art and mathematics meet.
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Website
University of California

University of California: Art, Geometry and Abstract Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives many examples of how math and geometry are used by visual artists to create abstract sculpures.
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Other

Asheville Art Museum: More Than Math

For Students 3rd - 8th
A fascinating and fun web site that integrates art and math. Includes activities and an art gallery of work from Joseph Albers.
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Other

Antonio Gutierrez: Geometry From the Land of the Incas

For Students 9th - 10th
Discovering the properties of constructions, seeing proofs in action, and viewing problems come to life here with this wonderful use of technology in the classroom. Single steps are explained and illustrated one at a time so that the...
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Other

Paul Friedlander Kinetic Light Sculptor, Computer Artist

For Students 9th - 10th
This fascinating site showcases the artwork of "Light sculptor," and computer artist, Paul Friedlander. Beautiful photographs and descriptions are included.
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Activity
Other

My Data = My Mondrian

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a minute and fill out the short questionaire about yourself. The computer converts your data into a personalized painting-- Mondrian style. Everyone will want to try this again and again!
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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fractals Unit

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the Rice University provides a Fractals Unit for Elementary and Middle School Students. Find out what a fractal is and what it looks like. You can value fractals for their visual delight or mathmatical properties. This is...
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Other

Mondrimat

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive program is designed to let you experiment with the elements of art and create an original work inspired by Piet Mondrian. All you need to do is read the simple directions and start clicking!