Description

New Year 2025 Goal Setting Tessellation Activity & Lesson Plan

What Is Included?

• Hexagon Goal Templates:
  • Templates designed for easy tessellation, showing students how their individual efforts connect to a greater whole.
  • Perfect for writing, drawing, and decorating goals for 2025.
• Lesson Plan:
  • Step-by-step guidance to make teaching this activity seamless.
• Bulletin Board Letters:
  • Bold, pre-made letters for creating a motivational and eye-catching display.

Why You’ll Love This New Year Goal Setting Tessellation Activity & Lesson Plan:

• Creative Goal-Setting: Students personalize their hexagon templates with meaningful goals, sparking reflection and self-expression.
• Collaborative Tessellation: The hexagons fit together perfectly, forming a tessellated pattern that symbolizes unity and teamwork.
• Bulletin Board Brilliance: The included bulletin board letters make it easy to display students’ work in a visually striking and motivational way.
• Cross-Curricular Appeal: Incorporate geometry discussions into your goal-setting activity, engaging students with math while they reflect on their aspirations.
• Flexible and Fun: Designed for all grade levels, this activity works in a single session or can be stretched into a multi-day project.

Tessellations

The hexagon templates are more than just a writing tool—they’re a chance to teach students about tessellation, the mathematical concept where shapes fit together without gaps or overlaps. As students complete their hexagons, they’ll see how their individual contributions connect with their classmates’ work to form a unified, interconnected pattern.

This aspect of the activity can be a wonderful opportunity to:

• Teach Geometry: Explain how hexagons are one of the few shapes that tessellate naturally and why their structure allows for this unique fit.
• Discuss Teamwork: Emphasize the importance of collaboration and how individual efforts combine to achieve something greater.
• Reinforce Growth Mindset: Highlight how setting goals helps build connections within the classroom and beyond, much like the tessellation pattern.

By incorporating this discussion, students not only work on their goals but also explore how math concepts apply to everyday life in creative and meaningful ways.

How to Use This New Year Goal Setting Activity:

• Reflection & Brainstorming: Begin with a discussion or journal activity reflecting on 2024’s highlights and challenges.
• Goal Creation: Have students decorate their hexagon templates with academic, personal, or community goals for 2025.
• Tessellation Display: Assemble the hexagons into a tessellated design on your bulletin board using the included letters to create an inspiring focal point.

Teachers love the blend of creativity, goal-setting, and geometry, making this an interdisciplinary hit. Students are excited to see how their unique goals connect to their peers’ work, creating a tangible reminder of the power of collaboration and shared aspirations.

Start the New Year with an activity that inspires creativity, builds community, and teaches valuable lessons.

➡️ Download your copy today and create a tessellated masterpiece with your students to kick off 2025!