Rotational Symmetry: Playing Cards

Rotational Symmetry Lesson from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Sketch a plan for head, shoulders, and center

Use observational drawing skills from resources

Personalize your design, add detail, erase the sketch

This lesson was definitely rewarding for my students though it did require doing the same drawing twice as they spun the paper and repeated their ideas. They painted with tempera paints and metallics then outlined in black and metallic markers. When they were finished I photographed and printed their paintings small enough to look like a real playing card. Though the lesson teaches symmetry, it is really a test of observational drawing skills. These 5th graders really wowed me with their skill & attention to detail.

I printed out symbols for students to apply to their cards after the art was painted, trimmed, and glued to a piece of tag board. 

I put the whole lesson with resources and print outs together in one ppt that you can download from TpT here.

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Click the image to download the rotational symmetry playing card lesson

Lesson extension:

The DoInk animation app allows for many many different techniques that can reinforce rotational symmetry. Here is an idea for creating an animated rotationally symmetrical playing card. The animation is created over (blank) photo downloaded from photofunia.

A video posted by Tricia Fuglestad (@fuglefun) on May 5, 2015 at 5:53pm PDT