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Beaded Braids: Investigating Patterns & Ratios
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In this activity learners create patterns of hair beads.
Boomerang
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Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.
Tessellations
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In this activity, learners will engineer a new shape and use it to create a new pattern with no wasted space.
Butterfly Symmetry Painting
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This activity (on page 3 of the PDF) has learners create models of butterfly wings.
Exploring Tessellations (Grades 6-8)
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In this activity, learners design unique tiles and make repeating patterns to create tessellations. This activity combines the creativity of an art project with the challenge of solving a puzzle.
Making a Translation Tessellation
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In this activity, learners slide shapes to create unusual tiled patterns.
Wear a Chimp on Your Wrist
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Learners construct a bracelet containing two strands of beads, which represents a double strand of DNA that codes for a gene. They match beads to the bases in a section of a chimp's DNA code.
Size It Up
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In this artistic activity, learners blow up a smaller picture into a larger one, by using a grid.
Toothpick Patterns
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In this math activity, learners make toothpick designs by following simple patterns.