Day 1 Students will be introduced to the concepts of mosaic floors and the begiining ideas of tesselations. Using the web the students will read short excerpts about concepts and the teacher will summarize those using an LED display from his computer. The second day will extend their knowledge of tesselations. We will introduce examples of tesselations used in mosaic floors using examples of tesselation artists. The students will view these example using web-links on the computer.
Students are responsible for preliminary idea sketches.
Day 3 Day three requires the students to be involved with the design and the construction of a mosaic tile using tessellations. The design is to make preliminary sketches finalized with all potential problems worked out. The construction techniques of mosaic tilesetting will be demonstrated today. We will be practicing with actual small scale construcion of mosaics using actual tiles. The students make a full scale drawing and draw it out on the wood.