Tessellation Portraits

Bucktown's 5th/6th grade class embarked on a complicated 2 part project. The first part of their project they created a unique tessellation. A tessellation is a shape that fits perfectly together with itself with no gaps or overlap and can repeat forever. We looked at the artwork of M.C. Escher as an example:
After completing the tessellation students created their self portraits. They were created by tracing an image of them that was projected on the white board. As a class we talked about color schemes and students choose a warm color scheme (reds, oranges and yellows) or a cool color scheme ( greens, blues and purples) for their portraits and tessellations.

They did an amazing job, enjoy!