Tessellation Exploration
This website is designed to answer the following three questions: What is a tessellation? Who is M.C. Escher? How can I create my own tesselation? To find the answers to these questions and much more you must explore the three main sections. Once you have completed all three sections, come back to this home page to take your final quiz and check your mastery of tesselation concepts. Who knows, maybe the next M.C. Escher is sitting in your very classroom!
Throughout the site, there is a helpful vocabulary page that you can access throughout the site by clicking on highlighted words and seeing their definitions. You will also find practice questions thoughout the site that will help prepare you to take the final quiz that is available at the bottom of this home page.
Throughout the site, there is a helpful vocabulary page that you can access throughout the site by clicking on highlighted words and seeing their definitions. You will also find practice questions thoughout the site that will help prepare you to take the final quiz that is available at the bottom of this home page.
What is a Tessellation ?
Start your exploration by clicking here and finding out what a tessellation is and how they work.
Who is M.C. Escher
In this section you will explore the life and work of the artist M.C. Escher. You will also complete an art critique about one of his artworks.
How can i create tessellations?
This section inculdes helpful videos and computer programs that will allow you to apply what you have learned about the creation of tessellations into your own unique artwork!
Tessellation Quiz
Test what you have learned about tessellations and submit your results to Mrs. Crosby-Boerma to see if you are a new M.C. Escher in the making.