Teaching Symmetry Through Art

Here is a video from a PBS station in Pennsylvania that demonstrates how a classroom teacher creates a simple symmetrical design and evaluates it with the class. He is integrating mathematics into art.

Although this video takes place in the United States the expectations are not unlike those in Ontario. For example, one expectation from the grade three strand of Geometry and Spatial sense states: " (the students must) complete and describe designs and pictures of images that have a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line of symmetry (Sample problem: Draw the missing portion of the given butterfly on grid paper.)."

Here is the video. Happy viewing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDzWNfZOriY