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Sweet or Sour, Like or Different

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students watch a video on comparisons and discuss ways in which objects can be sorted. They play an identification game with a lemon and discuss identification characteristics.
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Creating a Canvas Floor Cloth

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a clored canvas floor cloth. They practice color blending and pattern design.
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From Caterpiller to Butterfly: Cycles, Circles, and Patterns

For Teachers K - 4th
Students examine art of butterflies and discuss what they know about the insect. They create their own butterfly puppets and write a story to represent its life cycle.
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National Symbol Patterns

For Teachers K
Students discuss and create their own patterns. They practice and improve on making patterns of their own using red, white, and blue paper for a national theme. The symbols are based on what the teacher picks for the class.
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Fruity Counters

For Teachers K
Students classify objects that are similar by one attribute. They explain what a pattern is and how to make a pattern using objects.
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Two Part Patterns

For Teachers K
Students stand in a boy-girl-boy-girl pattern to demonstrate what a pattern might be. They separate into groups and create two part patterns using construction paper of different colors.
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Code Breakers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect data and make a frequency table, change ratios into percents, and analyze data to make predictions.
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Imagination Travel

For Teachers K
Students watch video segments on shapes and patterns. They create their own pattern within shapes.
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Cracking the Code

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore patterns with colors, shapes, and numbers by completing a fun quiz, watching a video, creating their own secret patterns/codes and completing an online patterning game.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

For Teachers K
Students use a pattern book to brainstorm ideas on a topic.
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Tiles Or Repeated Pattern on the Computer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a square design on the computer and repeat the square several times to create a pattern.
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Strange Elevators: Creating and Extending Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders solve problems by recognizing patterns, creating patterns and extending them. They compare and contrast patterns.
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Crayograph Quilts

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a quilt-like fabric swatches using Crayograph crayons, emery paper and rubbing plates.
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"Spooktacular Patterns" - A Math Unit for October

For Teachers K
Students extend a pattern using everyday objects. They use sound and objects to make a pattern
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Spring Egg

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students create a spring egg using a repeating pattern.
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Patterns and Partners

For Teachers K
Students create a pattern using the stamp tool on the Kid Pix program. They trade computers with a partner, and complete the pattern on their computer.
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Applemania

For Teachers 1st
First graders read "Ten Apples Up On Top!" and view real apples in a basket. They taste different kinds of apples and describe the tastes: sour, sweet, etc. They graph everyone's favorite apple. They interpret the graph and draw their...
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Geo Jammin' By Design: Listening for Patterns

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars listen to the teacher read a book and participate with guided questions. They discuss patterns and how they repeat, by looking at quilts. They design their own quilt block to create a class quilt.
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Geo Jammin By Design: The Important Thing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students brainstorm what they know about geometric terms and patterns. They identify symmetry, shapes and congruency. They create a book of symmetry.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 5, Lesson 24: Read All About It!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to The Important Thing About Quilt Design and rewrite an original version using geometric terms.
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Fossils and Migration Patterns in Early Hominids

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students plot the locations where major fossils of hominids have been found to extrapolate possible migratory patterns.
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Patterning Pictorial

For Teachers 1st
First graders describe and create simple patterns. They identify patterns in the environment. They extend and reproduce patterns.
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The Hundred Penny Box

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils recognize the pattern established year after year with the special coin dated appropriately
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Germs Make Me Sick

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work in pairs, first doubling each number with pencil and paper, and checking it with a calculator.