Pupils design printing blocks with patterns cut with scissors and/or Speedball Linozip Cutters. They print colorful repeating, alternating or tessellating pattern designs of difficulty appropriate for their age level.

Students explore how bees make honey and why the hexagon is the best basic pattern for the honeycomb through the use of a video and hands-on activities with honeycombs and geometric shapes.

Students search the school grounds for examples of symmetry in nature. They bring examples back to the classroom and write about them.

Students use pattern blocks and triangular grid paper to review shape names, be introduced to the concept of a tiling of the plane, and determine which pattern blocks tile the plane. They are asked: "Have you ever seen a floor or a wall...