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Bugs Take Shape

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate butterflies, moths, ladybugs and spiders looking at shapes, colors and patterns. They create a three dimensional bug using Crayola Model Magic, repeating patterns found in nature. They cut and shape the dough using...
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Pattern Power

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young elementary students will discover there are patterns all around them in their daily lives. In groups, they sort pattern blocks by size and color. Using the internet, they create their own type of patterns and share them with the...
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WonderFoam Collagraph Prints

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Experiment with your very own printmaking blocks using foam sheets! Your class can create a beautiful pattern on their stamp with various shapes, symmetrical or not. Printing these might resemble Italian or Spanish tile patterns, or a...
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Dick Blick Art Materials

“Rhythm in Layers”

For Teachers K - 12th
Young artists learn to build rhythm into a design by repeating colors, shapes, and patterns in a 3-D sculpture activity.
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Beyond the AB Pattern in Dance

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners demonstrate various patterns using dance. In this expressive arts lesson, students are led in a warm-up to demonstrate the AAB pattern, which includes spinning and jumping. Learners are broken up into groups and perform several...
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Dancing Polygons and Non-Polygons with Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study movements. In this dance lesson, 2nd graders draw patterns selecting one to represent through movement with their body.
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Patterns

For Students 1st - 2nd
Follow the pattern to find what comes next. Youngsters analyze shape patterns to continue the sequence in the provided space. The three patterns increase in difficulty, and then scholars have a chance to create two of their own....
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Extending Patterns

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
2, 4, 6, 8. What comes next? This reading comprehension worksheet discusses patterns and extending patterns. After reading the short article, kids answer a series of questions to demonstrate their understanding of the passage.
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Shape In Dance

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners engage in a lesson plan that is about the concept of shapes. They practice moves that are used to illustrate different types of shapes. Students participate in body movements that are focused around the directions of the body...
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It Just Keeps Going and Going...

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore patterns, identify patterns, and complete a variety of patterns. They view and discuss an online video and identify the different patterns from the film, then using a hundreds grid create an original pattern using their...
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A Matter of Pattern

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how shapes can make patterns then make connections as to how elements in a pattern relate to one another. For this matter of pattern lesson, students create a multi-folded paper snowflake. Students engage in a...
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Repeating Patterns

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils explore growth patterns by using manipulatives such as pattern blocks, investigate growth pattern of pattern, record growth in T-chart, describe how pattern is growing, and predict number of blocks needed to extend pattern.
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Math Lesson Plan: Bread Bag Tabs: Patterning

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore the concept of patterning. In this patterns lesson, students use recycled plastic tab closures as well as their problem solving skills to identify and create patterns.
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Let's Explore Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders define the word pattern and other related vocabulary. They create a pattern independently. Students recognize and extend patterns. They explain how repeated patterns are made. Students explore several patterns on a...
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Talking About Your Name in Math Terms

For Teachers K - 12th
Add imagination and creativity to your math lesson plan. Young mathematicians investigate ways to express their names in mathematical terms. For instance, they can count the number of letters, analyze the geometric shapes of the letters,...
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Say It With Shapes

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners create patterns with shapes and words. In this patterns and shapes lesson, students recieve an envelope with shapes with words on them. Learners make patterns with the shapes that also create a poem. Students can add to the poem...
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Perfect Patterns- Completing Patterns Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this completing patterns worksheet, students complete patterns with geometric shapes and the numbers 1-10. They color the geometric shapes with at repeating patterns.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Musical Patterns

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore the concept of patterning using musical instruments. In this music lesson, students identify several instruments and practice playing patterns with them. Young scholars identify the patterning in a musical piece.
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Shapes in Art, Shapes in Body

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore body movement.  In this shapes and dance instructional activity, students demonstrate body movements and positions that resemble simple shapes.  Students read I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait and choose...
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Make Your Own Pattern

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this early childhood understanding patterns worksheet, students find the pattern in 3 problems and then show each another way. Students also explain how they decided what pattern to make in 1 of the problems.
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Extending Pattern Understandings

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners use shapes and manipulatives to demonstrate patterns. In this patterns lesson plan, students also break up patterns to identify a pattern unit.
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It Keeps Going & Going &...

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars extend linear and directional patterns, identify patterns in classroom and community environments, create original patterns incorporating the senses of sight and sound, and operate video and recording equipment.
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Quilts Galore

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore patterns. They observe a video, "Math Monsters." Students determine the next item in a sequence. Students read books about patterns. They discuss patterns in quilts. Students visit a specified web site and design...
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A Matter of Pattern

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students will create and predict patterns formed when making paper snowflakes. Students will construct snowflakes understanding that patterns may be predicted based on observation.