Students use plaster of Paris, talc, and cornstarch to create their own chalk. They hypothesize what mixture of ingredients produce the "best" chalk. Students discuss what they think are the characteristics of the "best" chalk.

Students identify and construct figures that tessellate. They investigate which regular polygons tessellate and how to modify them to make other tessellating figures. Students explore how naturally occurring tessellations have been...

Students explore tessellations that are found in nature and everyday objects. They observe the works of M.C. Escher. Students create their own tessellations using pencil and paper.

Students practice creating art by imitating the camouflage of fish. In this animal characteristic lesson plan, students identify certain fish and their ability to change colors in order to survive in the wild. Students utilize coloring...

Students explore the history and purpose of quilts in early America. They create and name their own unique quilt blocks. Students combine their quilt blocks with other students in the class to create a class quilt.

Students explore tessellations as well as various types of polygon. Students examine tessellating patterns in the world around them. Students examine tessellations by creating their own tessellations and completing the included worksheet.

Students complete readings on kite making and kite flying. They analyze how the parts of a system interconnect and influence each other. Students identifies and uses color and form in a 3D artwork.

Students recognize shapes, designs and numbers that form patterns. Using their surroundings, they identify common patterns. They create their own patterns in various software programs and share them with the class.

Students investigate the history of fighter kites and build their own.  In this aeronautics lesson, students discover how other countries utilize fighter kites and where they originated.  Students create their own fighter kites...

Students arecognize the architecture of another culture, how the architecture of a people records their history, explore artistic elements, explore and use geometric concepts of shape, pattern, and symmetry.

Middle schoolers develop an appreciation for complex structures in nature. They observe patterns in nature in relationship to the Real World. Students use observation skills to assist in problem solving. They show comprehension of the...

Young scholars are introduced to Guatemala and to the tradition of giant kites. They decorate the kite sail and construct the kite. Students identifies possible causal factors contributing to given historical events.

Students display knowledge of line of symmetry by designing a geometric stained glass window pattern.

Students study and research irregular fractals and construct a few based on their research. Students practice pattern recognition skills and plane geometry skills calculating dimensions on the Fractured Pictures activity.

Pupils create a miniature Chinese robe made of paper.

Students explore tangram vocabulary and tangram designs, creating an art design that contains various geometric parts. They complete a checklist titled, Important Thing About a Quilt Design.

The Berkeley Art Museum publishes an activity based on Romare Bearden's The Cotton Pickers that helps young learners identify the geometric shapes used in the composition. Also discusses the artist's use of color to evoke mood.

A fascinating and fun web site that integrates art and math. Includes activities and an art gallery of work from Joseph Albers.

Sol LeWitt used ideas as his artwork, a method of artmaking that has become known as Conceptual art. From each idea, many drawings, prints, or sculptures could be created. Young scholars will use simple geometric shapes as creative...

An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on geometric and organic shape using Senufo's "Granary Door." The animation shows the formation of the various...

In this lesson, students use movement and the creation of human structures to help them understand angles, plane shapes, and geometric solids.

An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is from the artist's encyclopedia entry for shape which includes information on geometric/organic shapes, variations of...

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...

Investigating designs and shapes in quilts around the world is the activity in this internet exploration. Learners will also design their own quilt on paper or on the computer. Acrobat Reader required.