Title: What do swiss rolls have to do with it?
Course: Swiss Rolls and Sunflowers > Section: Swiss roll

Drawing

1. Get a piece of paper or open up a drawing program on your computer.
2. Draw a swiss (jam) roll.
3. Make sure it has plenty of filling in it
4. Compare your drawing with that of others in the class if you can.
5. Look at the filling. What shape have you made?

- a spiral
- spiral
- Spiral

Moving on

1. The shape you drew made a spiral.
2. Spirals are found all around us -they are man-made or in nature.
3. A spiral is a curve which starts at a fixed point and then gets further and further away.
4. We are going to look at different spirals. Be ready to comment!

Spiral 1

Take a look at this guy. Who/what is he? Why is he in our lesson? Can you give three pieces of information about such creatures?

Spiral 1

This is the National Theatre Budapest - with a labyrinth. What is a labyrinth? Can you find two more examples? What is a maze? Have you ever seen one or been in one?

Spiral 3

This is an aloe polyphylla plant. Look at how it spirals. Can you think of or find three other plants where you can see spirals?

Spiral 4

Look at the architecture on this building. Why do you think they  chose spirals? Can you find three other examples in buildings or furniture where spirals have been used? Remember you can add images to your answers.

Spiral 5

A quick break from work - this will make you dizzy!

Spiral 6

What is this? It is a famous example in Glasgow, Scotland. Have you seen one? Where? Where might you find them? Why do you think they are useful?

Spiral 7

Any guesses what this is?

(Clue - we all have two of them - but this is the inside view!)

Spiral 8

Here's the last of our spirals - it's in space! It's the pinwheel galaxy.

So spirals are all around us - man-made, in nature on earth and in space too.

What do swiss rolls have to do with it? They gave us our first clue: SPIRALS