You can find out if you need it by clicking on the PDF link. Objective Students will explore spatial relationships by determining the area of various shapes and creating tessellation patterns. Overview of the Lesson Students use a variety of manipulatives in this lesson to explore spatial relationships of squares and their transformations. They create a square with 36 square tiles and determine that by sliding several of the pieces both vertically and horizontally, they form an irregular shape that can be tessellated. Students are given a variety of curved shapes and encouraged to use tape and scissors to reconfigure their shape back into a square.
Students are surprised to learn that all of the different shapes have the same area.
Finally, they create a pattern from the square and tessellate it on the sidewalk using chalk. Activity Sheets are located at the bottom of the .pdf Lesson Plan. Procedure As a warm-up to the lesson, display two large paper squares on the board, each having an area of 36 square units. On the first square, draw a grid inside the square so that each square unit is displayed. On the second square, label each side of the square with its measurement of 6 units.