Seminar: Culturally Sustaining Investigative STEM
Program: CSIS
Subject Area: Math
Grade Level: High school
Year of Publication: 2024
Abstract
The Content Objective is for students to gain increased understandings of geometry vocabulary in English as well as Hopi Lavayi and how to use technology to represent geometric figures and motions. Art is a favorite pastime of many Hopi members, young and old. Using artwork to revive a few Hopi words at a time, is one of the many efforts used to revive Hopi Lavayi. Hopi artwork has many detailed characteristics, each signifying the history and practices of the Hopi people.
Students will choose or create a piece of artwork that they can manipulate to show various criteria of transformations, including translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations. Students will be able to describe the transformations using Hopi Lavayi and mathematical computations. Students will share their artwork, in detail using the descriptions of the various transformations, with their peers.