Lesson 1- 1 day
Line Up!
Part 1- Kid Patterns
Encourage students to find repeating patterns in the classroom. Clothing, calendar, tiles on floor or wall, etc.
Have students line up boy, girl, boy, girl, etc.
Ask students to describe the patterns they see in the line of children.
Create new patterns for students to identify:
-hands up/hands down
-plain shirt/patterned shirt
-eyes open/eyes closed
-buttons/no buttons
-sitting/standing
-arms crossed/arms hanging down
-socks/no socks
-facing front/facing back
-gym shoes/sandals
-smiling/frowning
After a while, have the students extend the patterns.
Part 2- Identifying and Extending Link Patterns
Make a chain link with the following color pattern: red, green, blue. Hide one chain in a paper bag. Pull the chain out of the bag one link at a time and encourage the students to identify the pattern. By the time the 6th link is out the students should say the repeating pattern is red, green, blue, red, green, blue…
Make another link pattern chain for the students to guess.
Arrange the students into groups and allow them to make patterns with link chains. Students can make a chain, hide it in a bag, and challenge peers to identify the pattern. Students should then extend the pattern by adding more links to the chain.
Part 3- Recording Link Patterns
Make a simple color pattern with links: such as red, blue, red, blue….Encourage the students to extend the pattern. Show them how you can represent the color with a letter (r, b, r, b) instead of writing the whole word out. Place it below each colored link.
Students will create their own patterns, color, and record them on their student guide paper.
Lesson 2- 2 days
Pick Apart a Pattern
Part 1 AB Symbols
Ask students to identify the pattern unit in each row. The pattern unit is the piece that is repeated.
They should circle the pattern unit they see for each question.
Introduce the letters of A, B, C to describe and record patterns. The first element is called A, the second is called B…and so on. Revisit the patterns with a transparency on the overhead. Students should describe the patterns using A, B, C… Students can count the different number of elements to help them figure out how many letters they will need. They can put their solutions on the overhead.
Part 2- Comparing Patterns
Make a pattern with a chain of links and hide it in a bag. Encourage students to identify the pattern as you pull it out of the bag link by link. Students should use AB symbols to identify it. For example a red, blue, green pattern would be ABC. Discuss the similarities and differences in ABC patterns.
Ask students to create 2 ABBA patterns. Discuss the similarities and difference between the patterns.
Ask students to work in groups to make patterns with links. Students identify the patterns, represent them with links and extend them. Their peers should make another pattern with the same symbols. They should challenge each other by saying, “I challenge you make 2 different patterns where the symbols are the same” or “make two different ABBC patterns”.
Line Up!
Part 1- Kid Patterns
Encourage students to find repeating patterns in the classroom. Clothing, calendar, tiles on floor or wall, etc.
Have students line up boy, girl, boy, girl, etc.
Ask students to describe the patterns they see in the line of children.
Create new patterns for students to identify:
-hands up/hands down
-plain shirt/patterned shirt
-eyes open/eyes closed
-buttons/no buttons
-sitting/standing
-arms crossed/arms hanging down
-socks/no socks
-facing front/facing back
-gym shoes/sandals
-smiling/frowning
After a while, have the students extend the patterns.
Part 2- Identifying and Extending Link Patterns
Make a chain link with the following color pattern: red, green, blue. Hide one chain in a paper bag. Pull the chain out of the bag one link at a time and encourage the students to identify the pattern. By the time the 6th link is out the students should say the repeating pattern is red, green, blue, red, green, blue…
Make another link pattern chain for the students to guess.
Arrange the students into groups and allow them to make patterns with link chains. Students can make a chain, hide it in a bag, and challenge peers to identify the pattern. Students should then extend the pattern by adding more links to the chain.
Part 3- Recording Link Patterns
Make a simple color pattern with links: such as red, blue, red, blue….Encourage the students to extend the pattern. Show them how you can represent the color with a letter (r, b, r, b) instead of writing the whole word out. Place it below each colored link.
Students will create their own patterns, color, and record them on their student guide paper.
Lesson 2- 2 days
Pick Apart a Pattern
Part 1 AB Symbols
Ask students to identify the pattern unit in each row. The pattern unit is the piece that is repeated.
They should circle the pattern unit they see for each question.
Introduce the letters of A, B, C to describe and record patterns. The first element is called A, the second is called B…and so on. Revisit the patterns with a transparency on the overhead. Students should describe the patterns using A, B, C… Students can count the different number of elements to help them figure out how many letters they will need. They can put their solutions on the overhead.
Part 2- Comparing Patterns
Make a pattern with a chain of links and hide it in a bag. Encourage students to identify the pattern as you pull it out of the bag link by link. Students should use AB symbols to identify it. For example a red, blue, green pattern would be ABC. Discuss the similarities and differences in ABC patterns.
Ask students to create 2 ABBA patterns. Discuss the similarities and difference between the patterns.
Ask students to work in groups to make patterns with links. Students identify the patterns, represent them with links and extend them. Their peers should make another pattern with the same symbols. They should challenge each other by saying, “I challenge you make 2 different patterns where the symbols are the same” or “make two different ABBC patterns”.