Etropolis: Escher's "Drawing Hands"

Using M.C. Escher's Hand with Reflecting Sphere as inspiration, learners create their own set of self-portraits using various reflective surfaces. The activity begins with a discussion about portraiture and ends with a presentation of...

This resource provides a very informative biography as well as a gallery with 15 pictures of great Escher art.

Students use hands-on activities to explore transformations. They view a video segment that demonstrate how M. C. Escher employed geometry and transformations to create so many of his famous drawings.

Learners create a tessellations using rotation and translation. They also create a tessellation using reflection.