Lesson Two-Patterns

Objectives:

• Students will identify and copy simple patterns.

• Students will identify pattern units and extend simple patterns.

• Students will create simple patterns.

Time Required:

• Two-one hour sessions 

Vocabulary:

• pattern

• repeat

Materials:

• KidPix

• Computer with Internet Access

• Hey Diddle Diddle Nursery Rhyme

• plastic bags

• plastic spoons, forks and dishes (each item should be different colors:  the spoons one color, the forks one color and the dishes one color))

• Cube Patterns Worksheet

• Connecting Cubes

• Pattern House Instructions

Procedures:

• Have students sit in front of you.  Clap your hands and have students do the same.  Then snap your fingers and have students do the same.  You say:  "I am doing the same thing over and over.  I will repeat what I am doing."  Repeat the clap hands, snap fingers pattern three times.  Tell students that when you do something over and over in the same order, you make a pattern.  Repeat again clapping and snapping three times and ask students what comes next in the pattern and join in the pattern.  Model other simple sound and/or movement patterns and ask students what comes next.
• Read aloud nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle and discuss contents of rhyme.
• Review with the students that a pattern is anything that repeats itself.
• Have ready plastic spoons, forks and dishes and invite students think of ways that these items could be sorted.  Allow students to come up and sort the items.  Teacher will ask how they are sorting each time.
• Ask, "Now that the items are sorted, can you think of some ways that we can make patterns with them?"  Take answers and allow 2 or 3 students to demonstrate some different ways of patterning.
• Divide class into groups of 3 or 4.   Give each group a plastic bag with forks, spoons, and dishes and have them make different patterns using the spoons, forks and dishes.
• After several minutes, each group will share the patterns created by their group and have a class discussion.
• Students will now work independently using connecting cubes in two or three different colors to practice making their own patterns.

Evaluation:

• Observe student interaction/cooperation in groups.  Were students able to form patterns in groups and/or individually?  Were students able to explain the patterns they created?

• Students will choose two different patterns they have created using the connecting cubes and color them exactly as they have designed them onto the cube pattern worksheet.

Extension Activity:

• Have students use KidPix to create patterns using the stamps.

• Students can play Which One Comes Next? using characters from Dr. Seuss' stories.

• Students can play Music Patterns.   Here students use sounds to make patterns and are able to listen to the patterns they made.

• Students can play with Alfy's Coloring Book.  Students are allowed to make designs by stamping shapes of various sizes and colors.  Students can create all sorts of geometric patterns.

• Students can help Salt and Pepper make  Picture Frame Patterns.  Click on The Blues Clues and then on games.

Home Learning:

• Students will make a Pattern House.