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Seeing Symmetry!

Teaching symmetry to children

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Symmetry challenge with Legos

by www.nurturestore.co.uk

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One of the designs from my Father's Day Star Cards with rotational symmetry. This one says on the front, "Always bear in mind that you are..." then inside, "...my All-Star Dad!"

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One of my Father's Day Star Card designs with rotational symmetry. This one says on the front "A little bird told me that you are a...." The inside reads "...5 star Dad!"

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Folk Art. Decorations displaying exclusively rotational symmetry often occur in folk arts. Old Native American pottery has decorations with a wealth of rotational-only symmetry.

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Symmetry Shuffle app - This mathematical puzzle allows users to explore line and rotational symmetry, while developing their spatial sense to create strategies to help them solve problems.

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Rotational Symmetry

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Symmetry is Eggciting activity in progress :)

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Invertebrate symmetry

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Numerical symmetry

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Symmetry: "My monster is beautiful" :)

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Symmetry art activity

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Christy Bailey McManus Ms. Leedy, these are from Math Art, http://www.amazon.com/Math-..., which is an exceptional book. I use it often in my special education classroom.

Notes from my math conference talk about Seeing Symmetry, including links to iPad apps with line or rotational symmetry

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Picasso-style portrait by student...good example of asymmetry :)

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M is for Mirror...just heard about this 1998 book, you need a mirror to see the images hidden in the art...sounds intriguing!

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Symmetry: 3rd grade Magazine pictures cut in half, students drew the mirror image on the other side. Super fun. They loved doing it. Lots of art and math. Cool!

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Mandalas

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First Graders See Symmetry! Blog post with several teaching ideas for symmetry including a call-and-response chant

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Owl symmetry art project

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Animal masks

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Creating 'symmetric' flowers based on "Planting a Rainbow" by Lois Ehlert. More photos in article

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"Squish painted" monsters and critters...blobs of paint inside a folded piece of paper, details added later with a black marker

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Julie Blanda I have made these for Math, Art and Science. We call them Symmetry Blotter Bugs! Soooo cute. I can't wait to use your Symmetry book next year with this project!!!

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Loreen Leedy Cool, I bet the kids really love making them! I remember making string/paint pictures, but we didn't turn them into anything...this is much more fun!

Third graders created brilliant tissue paper banners as part of their study of Mexican art. A rainbow of authentic Mexican papel picados was strung above the chalkboard. We noted the variety of shapes that pierced each piece. Students folded a large sheet of tissue 4 times, and then cut interesting shapes from the sides, bottom, and along the folds.

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These are triangle 'papel picado' Mexican banners

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Mexican banners (papel picado)

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Papel Picado craft. Easy patterns for kids to cut.

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"Papel Picado", or "cut paper", is a colorful decoration found at most Mexican celebrations.

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Kids will be "Seeing Symmetry" with these FREE activities related to my newest picture book! Most are suitable for Math Centers and only a couple require the book to be on hand.

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4th graders make totem pole designs

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Self portrait starting with a photo of half of their face

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Totem poles made out of paper towel rolls

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Mother's Day butterfly made from hand cutouts

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Butterfly hand print

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Kids can make a WOW MOM card with a little help from line symmetry and this printable. Four design options are included plus a capital letter cut-and-fold activity and a "My MOM is WOW because…" writing prompt. Aligned with CCore 4th Grade geometry 4.G.3

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Snowflake-style Easter eggs

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2nd graders in action using my Symmetry is Eggciting designs. The article has many more photos and is on Luckeyfrog's Lilypad, a blog by a new teacher with her first class. They did a great job!

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Students making shapes with line symmetry!

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Symmetrical paper frames for children's art

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Spring Flower Pinwheel Craft

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Origami Butterfly

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Printable Easter eggs with line symmetry, 10 different designs to draw and color with two levels of difficulty. Aligned with the Common Core State Standard for 4th grade geometry: 4.G.3 (line symmetry)

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Embroidered symmetry

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another great photo idea for grad slideshow

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Pam Micks Darlene. An idea for the yearbook

Real life example of symmetry with counterchange, which M.C. Escher often used in his art work.

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Circle Patterns ~ Rotational Symmetry 4th grade students learn the term "rotational symmetry" in their math class, so for a cross curriculum connection we do a series of projects involving rotational symmetry. In this project students used a compass to draw perfect concentric circles in which they drew small pictures or patterns that rotated around the circle. They colored in their drawings with markers and did their best to be consistent with their coloring.

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