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Fractal Art Kit

After printing a template of their favorite fractal, learners can enhance and illuminate their design to create a lasting work of art embodying geometric concepts.



Our fractal art kit consists of neatly packaged parts that children can assemble to learn the basics of circuit design.  The toolkit also includes microcontrollers (ATtinies) that are programmed to allow sets of LED lights to blink at different rates.  Children can arrange the strings of lights so that the different levels of the fractal blink at different rates.  This provides another visual representation of self-similarity & the scaled nature of fractals.

This fractal toolkit is a project for Paulo Blikstein's Beyond Bits and Atoms: Designing Tools for On and Off-Line Learning class at Stanford University.  It was designed and built in the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab. 

A collection of resources for helping kids learn about fractals.  These resources have been curated specifically for middle and high school students.

A set of tutorials and activities for kids to explore the underlying mathematical concepts of fractals including iterated function systems, recursion, and self-similarity.

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