Analyzing Designs
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A lesson plan for Grade 4 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics
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- Appropriate grades
- 4
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- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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In this lesson, the fifth of an eight-part unit from Illuminations titled “Paper Quilts,” students explore the geometric transformations of rotation, reflection, and translation. They create a design and then, using flips, turns, and slides, make a four-part paper “mini-quilt” square with that design as the basis. This experience focuses students' attention on both the changes produced by the geometric transformations and on line symmetry.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Visual Arts Education (2001)
Grade 4
- Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
- Objective 2.02: Use additional art media, techniques and processes which may include:
- Fibers - stitchery, a variety of fiber weaving techniques, felting and quilting
- Cut paper - complex symmetrical folding and cutting;
- Sculpture - experiments with varied tools including small hand tools.
- Objective 2.02: Use additional art media, techniques and processes which may include:
Mathematics (2004)
Grade 4
- Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will recognize and use geometric properties and relationships.
- Objective 3.03: Identify, predict, and describe the results of transformations of plane figures.
- Reflections.
- Translations.
- Rotations.
- Objective 3.03: Identify, predict, and describe the results of transformations of plane figures.
