Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade K, Math Std 5: Replicate patterns using concrete objects. Sorting objects by characteristics Examples: color, size, shape Describing characteristics of patterns and/or objects

Lesson Plans: Button, Button Students will listen to the book The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid and then classify, estimate and count buttons in a set. Buttons! Buttons! After listening to Frog and Toad Are Friends, students will use clues to sort and classify buttons. Patterns A teacher directed, hands-on lesson in which children will manipulate shapes to follow and create patterns. Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns: Unit Overview: In this Unit Plan (4 lessons), students will learn about and practice patterning. Powerful Patterns: Unit Overview: In this Unit Plan (9 lessons), students use logical thinking to create, identify, extend, and translate patterns. They make patterns with objects, numbers, and shapes. Creating "AB" Patterns: Patterns exists both in the natural and manmade world. It is an element in art, as well as math. Knowledge of patterns allows the learner to systematize and predict outcomes. In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to construct this concept using visual arts designs and math manipulatives. Big and Little: In this lesson, students will work together to create patterns that alternate big and little blocks. They will then gather together in a circle and create group patterns using big and little circle cut-outs. Fruit Kabobs: This is a fun patterning lesson your students will eat up! Students will watch the teacher create a fruit pattern on a skewer while practicing rote counting from 0-10. Students will then create their own fruit pattern on a piece of paper. Popcorn Patterns: In this lesson, children will listen to a book about popcorn, pop popcorn, and make popcorn pattern necklaces. Eating Patterns: In this lesson, students will sort pictures of food and create patterns. They also analyze a partner's patterns and extend those patterns.

Resources: Learning to Label a Pattern This activity is helpful for students who have a difficult time with pattern construction and labeling. Internet Field Trip: Patterns All Around: Explore patterns all around us using this internet field trip. Pattern Blocks Program: This interactive program allows you create patterns using pattern blocks. Math: Patterns: This eMINTS website offers links to sites that show different patterns with numbers and objects.
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