Happy Christmas!!!

This is the Christmas Digital Card used by our IES for everybody. You have made the tasks!!!!!

FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PRÓSPERO AÑO 2014 os deseamos desde el IES Isaac Newton, on PhotoPeach

Your tasks: Snowflakes - Rotational symmetry

SMALL SNOWFLAKES on PhotoPeach

 HUGE SNOWFLAKES on PhotoPeach

Everything was used in our Christmas carols contest at Assembly Hall's walls.

Discovering KIRIGAMI. Space with paper for CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS TREES
We are going to construct a pop-up Christmas Tree using another Japanese technique named Kirigami. It will be a good example of POSITIVE SPACE and NEGATIVE SPACE.

Here you will find the template to be downloaded:

Instructions. By Robert Sabuda.

We are going to use color paper and we will use them as hanging trees.

SNOWFLAKES

6-pointed Paper Snowflakes instructions. This task will be a good example of polygons and rotational symmetry.

Doors

When students finish their tasks, they have been decorating our classrooms doors!

OUR DOORS - NUESTRAS PUERTAS on PhotoPeach

Plastic language OUT OF PAPER!!!!!

Now that we are working with PAPER (ORIGAMI TURKEYS)...

LI HONGBO
 
Li Hongbo demonstrating, how his paper sculptures work. from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.



ANASTASSIA ELIAS

Take the artistic talents of Anastassia Elias. Looking at an empty toilet paper roll one day, Anastassia was able to envision something more than trash. Using manicure scissors and tweezers, she creates scenes imitating the everyday lives of ordinary people and places.

and now, ...

FORNITURE

So many things can be made out of paper! This time we are going to see how Élise Fouin, a French artist, makes furniture out of the material. 

And... using cardboard:

Using toilet paper and more things: Sakir Gokcebag, a turkish artist. Discover his artworks on his website.

A review for your first Technical Drawing Exam

Exam 3rd ESO (A, C, diver): December, 11th

Don't panic!

For your first Technical Drawing exam you will have to study vocabulary and constructions. You will find everything in the following links:

• The foundations of geometry.
• Simple elements.
• Paralllel and perpendicular lines.
• Line segment operations.
• Angles. Angles operations.
• Angle bisector.
• Perpendicular bisector.
• Thales theoreme. (NO)

Do you have any question? Use a comment in this article.