This BUNDLE is 57 pages including the two PowerPoints and the activity guide. The 24-page activity guide includes “PowerPoint Interaction” questions with answer keys and journal page templates for students to journal about their favorite M.C. Escher topics and or tessellations. In addition, students will receive a link to the M.C. Escher and Tessellations resource pages found on the MathArt Virtual Library website. The pages feature projects and activities related to M.C. Escher’s works, tessellation activities, additional web resources and videos for further learning. Famed Dutch artist, M.C. Escher (1898 - 1972) though a sickly child became a self-taught “MathArtist” genius. Escher created works beyond the human imagination inspired from adventures such as a visit to the Moors’ castle of the Alhambra in Spain, a Mediterranean voyage among other European travels. Undaunted by his lack of mathematica training, he found more in common with mathematicians of his day, such as English professor of mathematics, Roger Penrose than he did with fellow artists. His use of tessellations (the tiling of a two-dimensional flat surface with repeating patterns without gaps or overlaps) in his artwork has inspired artists, art appreciators and mathematicians for decades. Come take a journey through time to see the magnificent artwork of this “MathArtist Magician” as we study Escher’s life, the “behind the scenes” of how his artwork was created, along with a tour of the mathematical wonder and beauty of tessellations found in both art, architecture, art history and nature.

This can be used as a short unit study. Come on a journey learning about famed “MathArtist”, Leonardo da Vinci! da Vinci, one of the greatest men and genius’ of his time, was considered a “polymath”, meaning he mastered many subjects. Among many subjects, he was considered a great artist, mathematician, architect, inventor, botanist and writer, to name a few. The term polymath applies to such people as Leonardo da Vinci during the Renaissance period. The Renaissance approximately spanned the 14th to the 17th century, began in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spread to the rest of Europe. This 2-part PowerPoint with accompanying activity guide focuses on da Vinci’s unquenchable thirst and curiosity for the relationships with mathematics, science, art and nature. In this study, we look at how da Vinci found remarkable relationships with these four topics and integrated them profusely in written work throughout his journals. What’s in the BUNDLE This BUNDLE includes two PowerPoints totaling 26 slides along with a 24-page activity guide featuring “PowerPoint Interaction Questions”, drawing activities and an answer key. In addition, students are given four journal templates with guiding questions about topics of their choice within the study. Finally, students are given a link to the Leonardo da Vinci resource page hosted on Natureglo’s eScience MathArt website. The link will give students access to web resources, projects and activities, videos and more!