SCHOOL PROGRAMS

EDUCATIONALLY SOUND

LASM educational programs are aligned with current state standards, benchmarks, and GLE’s.

See GLE’s and classroom activities listed with each program.

Related programs are denoted by the word Link.

Tessellations

Class Description

No need to let intricate tessellations intimidate your students! This class introduces M. C. Escher, the artist who made tessellations popular through his mind-bending illustrations of architecture and nature. Students review geometry concepts, examine the fascinating relationship of art to geometry, and apply higher-order thinking skills as they transform a simple geometric figure into their own work of art.

Grade Level: 4–8
LINK: Art Class: Radial Symmetry, Grades 3-6

State Standards, Benchmarks, and GLEs

Grades 4–8
VA-CA-M1 Students will view works of art and analyze how artists use design elements and principles to achieve an aesthetic effect
VA-AP-M4 Students will demonstrate awareness of various new ideas, possibilities, options, and situations pertaining to the art world
VA-HCP-M6 Students will identify major works of great and influential artists and recognize their achievements
VA-CE-M6 Students will understand and visually express relationships among visual arts, other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

Grade 4
G-3-E Students will make and test predictions regarding transformations (i.e., slides, flips, and turns) of plane geometric shapes (Unit 6 #30)

Grade 5
G-3-M Students will identify and use appropriate terminology for transformations (e.g., translation as slide, reflection as flip, and rotation as turn (Unit 3 #25)

Grade 6
G-3-M Students will make and test predictions regarding tessellations with geometric shapes (Unit 4 #27)

Grade 7
G-3-M Students will draw the results of reflections and translations of geometric shapes on a coordinate grid (Unit 5 #25)

Grade 8
G-2-M Students will demonstrate conceptual and practical understanding of symmetry, similarity, and congruence, and identify similar and congruent figures (Unit 3 #24)

Classroom Activities

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LASM is fully accredited in accordance with the standards of excellence prescribed by the American Alliance of Museums.

These programs have been made possible in part through the generous support of the East Baton Rouge City-Parish Government and the members of LASM, the Community Fund for the Arts of Greater Baton Rouge and the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, and are supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.