Lesson Four – Pavements
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and design examples of tessellating patterns that could be used to build a selection of different pavements found around a city.
The class can identify and describe the individual properties of some of the different shapes that might be visible in a pavement pattern built in city locations.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and design examples of tessellating patterns that could be used to build a selection of different pavements found around a city
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes and patterns seen in pavements around a city and a set of cards to select and continue examples of different tessellating patterns to represent pavements in a city.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore examples of tessellating patterns that could be used for pavements around a city.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and model some of the different patterns of shapes that can be seen on buildings and street furniture around a city location. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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