They're everywhere, those bright, weird, beautiful shapes called fractals. Fractals are geometric figures, just like rectangles, circles and squares, but fractals have special properties that those figures do not have. There's lots of information on the Web about fractals, but most of it is either just pretty pictures or very high-level mathematics.
Every lesson has a print version for classroom use.
Thanks to Sarah Seastone at The Math Forum for her invaluable assistance with editing these pages. Students in Mr. Lynch's class in Sandpoint, Idaho created this 11th iteration Jurassic Park Fractal. It took 128 copies of their original to make. Third grade students in Ms. Renner's class at Alief ISD's Chambers Elementary in Houston, TX made this this 9th iteration Jurassic Park Fractal.