"BEE KIND" Collaborative Project w/ Tessellations | Fun Spring Kindness Activity
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“BEE KIND” Collaborative Tessellation Project. Help your students focus on the importance of kindness. This project is perfect at the beginning of the school year, the start of the New Year, around Valentine’s Day, or any time of the year. Kindness is always “in”!
Using hexagons that tessellate, your students will create a collaboration poster that connects the individual with the group. The final poster has a ton of “wow factor” when complete, and I hope it will greatly impact your students.
Every night at dinner, my family and I play a game where we say one kind thing that someone did for us and one kind thing that we did for someone else. Over the years of doing this at dinner, it has helped us focus on how important kindness is as individuals and as a family. I hope this project will do the same for your class.
This project is fun for kids and easy for you as the teacher. I’ve done everything I can to make this a successful project—including a teaching video about what tessellations are. I have included all the instructions you need to be successful with this project.
Kindness Writing Prompts:
Students will each work on a pair of hexagons.
- One hexagon asks the question, “What is something kind that you have done for someone recently?”
- The second hexagon asks the question, “What is something kind that someone has done for you recently?”
I have included these questions on two different designs (one with lines and one without). Use what works for you and the grade level you teach.
I have also included a rough draft page for your students to plan out what they want to write before they write on the final hexagons.
Once each student completes their pair of hexagons, their pieces will connect (tessellate) with the rest of the class to make the overall “BEE KIND” collaboration tessellation poster.
This activity provides a meaningful demonstration that our individuality combines with others to make a greater whole and that kindness matters!
Students will be amazed to see how their pieces all connect (tessellate) to make the final design—and they’ll be proud to show their friends and family which part they created.
Hopefully, you can hang the final poster in a place where other students and adults can come by and read the acts of kindness.
In these instructions, I’ll walk you through how to do this project. This project has a lot of room for creativity and almost endless opportunities—I hope you and your students have a great time with it!
Since the tessellation can go on "forever," you might want to keep a few extra pieces around. These would be useful if you get any new students or if you're going to include the larger school community on this project—maybe even parents (or your principal) would want to answer these questions on kindness.
There is SO MUCH included in this resource, Including a complete TEACHING VIDEO. Please see the preview file and preview video for all that is included in this comprehensive resource!
See all of my Tessellation Collaboration Projects HERE.
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