Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Algebra: Number Patterns

For Students 4th - 5th
Complete a step by step lesson regarding number patterns then assess your knowledge with a quiz.
Activity
K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Patterns in the Addition Table [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Students will follow the given steps to explore the patterns in the addition table.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Algebra: Geometric Patterns

For Students 5th - 6th
Explroe geometric patterns with this step by step interactive lesson.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: 2 Step Word Problems

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Solve two-step word problems with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Some questions include estimation. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive...
Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Guess My Button

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This website gives students an opportunity to sort and classify attributes of a group. The applet responds to each selection made and guides student to the next step.
Activity
Other

24 Hour Museum (u.k.): Marbling Paper Patterns

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site reviews techniques for creating marbled paper or marbling. A step-by-step demonstration is provided to walk the user through the process and picture are given for every step of the process.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: 1 Step 2 Step, Fibonacci

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
See if you can find the patterns on the staircase. Mr. Fibonacci would be so proud to know you found the solution. You can check your solution right at this nifty one-page website.
Lesson Plan
Other

Laus Dnet: Grade 1 Word Lesson Plan (Stone Soup) Pdf

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students use Stone Soup by Ann McGovern to generate word lists and use patterned text to assist with descriptive writing. Gives links to step sheets and samples for creating a table , a template for shared writing, a...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Stream Velocity Investigation Using Inquiry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An outdoor activity where students visit a local stream for a scientific inquiry. They make observations about the stream, and take measurements of the stream's velocity, depth, and width. They will also develop a sediment thickness...
Activity
Other

Math Stories: Finding a Pattern

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
At this one page site, you can work through step by step a sample problem that illustrates the problem-solving strategy for "identify a pattern." The answer is right there to help you check your thinking.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure, Reg Harris[pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the three-page PDF article "The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure" by Reg Harris which outlines the characteristics of the journey motif in literature including the basic eight-step journey pattern.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Essays for Exams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout provides a comprehensive look at writing essays for exams including what a well-written answer to an essay exam question includes, a step-by-step decription of how to write an effective essay exam, an explanation of patterns...
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Need help with doing a descriptive paper or personal narrative? Need a writing lesson plan? Meet Virginia Hamilton and follow her step-by-step guide to writing. When done, you are eligible for a certificate signed by this author.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Bonus Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article gives a step-by-step guide to how the boundary lines in a Voronoi diagram can be calculated and provides practice questions and answers.
Lesson Plan
PE Central

Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Jumping Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Through this activity, students practice jumping and landing in specific patterns (2-step sequence and 3-step sequence). Included at this website are ideas for varying the activity, assessing students' effort and participation, and...
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Growth Creature Lab Data Collecting

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan completely explains how students will collect data on the growth of an "alligator" and determine the relationship of the growth data to the Fundamental Theorem of Similarity and to topics in geometry in general. All of the...
eBook
Quia

Quia: Making Homemade Pizza (9 Steps)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity aims to improve student understanding of sequencing. Students put eight actions in order to emphasize understanding and application of sequential order.
Handout
WebMD

Web Md: How a Health Professional Measures Blood Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource lists the steps a health professional usually follows in measuring blood pressure. Also listed are factors that may cause a measurement to be inaccurate.
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Bricks Activity, Teacher Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Builders of brick walls need to be especially aware of fault lines which can easily lead to the collapse of the wall. Students are challenged, here, to use polyminoes to design patterns for brick walls which do not contain fault lines....
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Automatic Floor Cleaner Computer Program Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn more about assistive devices, specifically biomedical engineering applied to computer engineering concepts, with an engineering challenge to create an automatic floor cleaner computer program. Following the steps of the...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dna: The Human Body Recipe

For Teachers 4th - 7th
As a class, young scholars work through an example showing how DNA provides the "recipe" for making our body proteins. They see how the pattern of nucleotide bases (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine) forms the double helix ladder shape...
Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: All Cells Arise From Pre Existing Cells

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated explanation introduces the concept of mitosis by reviewing the research of Walther Flemming.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Make a Backpack

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make a Backpack is a fun activity for students of all ages. Kids go through a step-by-step process of selecting different styles, colors, patterns, and keychains!
Article
Harvard University

Harvard College Writing Center: How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief explanation of the tasks involved in doing a close reading in preparation for writing. This writer breaks the process into three steps which involve annotating the text, looking for patterns, and asking questions of the text.