My students need felt, glue, puzzles and a tessellation set to complete their art and math unit. With the supplies ordered they will be able to make tessellation pillows and tessellation puzzles.
$235 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
"If we see it and make it, it becomes easier to understand and more meaningful."
Tessellations, rotations, reflection, and symmetry are hard concepts to master but if students actually make something like a tessellation pillow or tessellation puzzle then they are more likely to grasp those math concepts.
My students are like a multi-cultural box of crayons from California.
They speak many different languages and have been in the United States many years to just days. Eighty-five percent are eligible for free and reduced price lunches. They are teenagers with lots of energy, emotions, curiosity and creativity. They need to be guided and let loose with all those emotions and creativity in the art room. The school is a public school. The art room is a place to be creative and to integrate that creativity with other core subjects such as math. Learning math through art is one way to open minds and challenge students. Students bring their flavor, their personality, their energy, and their background to each art project. What comes out of the art room from students is spectacular.
My Project
What will come from this project is 150 tessellation felt pillow and 150 tessellation puzzles. I have the felt pillows, I just need the rest of the materials to complete this unit on math and art/tessellations. With the felt, they will cut out tessellation patterns and with the fabric glue, they will glue the pattern on their pillows. They will be able to take them home to their families and share these colorful, one of a kind projects. The results are colorful and educational as well. They will know what a tessellation is and what a reflection is.
They will get the blank tessellation puzzles and be able to make their own designs. They can then cut out and put together the tessellation puzzle they designed. By integrating math and art, students will take home and share the math concepts and hopefully understand them. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
Funding this project will give these students an advantage to make something that is not funded by the school.
Making their own pillow is not something they knew they could do and that math can be art is not something they were aware of as well. Giving advantages to disadvantaged students is what this project would do. Thank you!
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