A tessellation is part of geometry. You can identify a tessellation when you see a shape that can be neatly fitted together again and again with no gaps.
To see how to make your own tessellations,
take a look at this video.
Once you start looking you can find lots of examples of tessellations in the world around you: buildings, machines, toys and natural objects. Many amazing tessellations are made by nature!
Here are some more ideas created by another group of children for you to look at.
These have been created by starting from a square piece of card.
Try a google image search for yourself to see what you can find. Copy any of these search ideas and paste them into the search bar to discover amazing images:
- natural patterns
- patterns in nature
- shell patterns
- camouflage patterns
- tessellations in nature
- coral patterns
- spider patterns
- patterns in frost
- river patterns
- natural spirals
- building tessellations
- spiral stairs
Key words pattern or tessellation +
an animal
a vehicle
an object
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