Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Point Line - Teaching Patterns

For Teachers K
Pupils practice extending patterns. In this patterns lesson plan, students demonstrate extending patterns by performing a rhythmic patter.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Dot to Dot

For Students 2nd
In this dot to dot patterns worksheet, 2nd graders continue to connect the dots in 4 patterns to continue each pattern. Students create their own pattern on the last dot to dot section of the worksheet.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigation - Square Numbers and Triangle Numbers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate growth patterns using blocks. In this square and triangle numbers lesson, 5th graders predict sizes of larger triangles and squares based on numerical patterns they observed while building. 
Worksheet
Curated OER

Following in the Footsteps

For Students 3rd
For this dot patterns worksheet, 3rd graders continue and follow the dots to 5 patterns to form 5 different shapes and shade in each part to match each pattern.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It Keeps Going & Going &...

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 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.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shape Hunt

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars explore two-dimensional and solid shapes. In this shapes and patterns geometry lesson, students work with a partner to create identifiable objects using tangrams. Young scholars describe the attributes of their shape and...
Worksheet
Curated OER

What Comes Next?

For Students 2nd
In this patterns learning exercise, 2nd graders look over 4 different rows of pictures, look for a pattern and then draw what comes next on the lines provided. Students create their own pattern on the 5th line.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding Rhyming Words in a French Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore rhyming in this phonemic awareness and French lesson. Listen to the poem "J'Adore la Pizza" by Karen Kransky and identify rhyming words. Compare grapheme spelling patterns with like phonemes, and sort word cards according to...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Cat in the Hat Math Problems

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Cat in the Hat themed, math worksheet, students will determine the answer to nine different word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and pattern recognition skills.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Survival of the Fittest – Battling Beetles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore natural selection. For this genetic adaptation lesson, students discover why certain traits continue and some traits disappear. Students discover how species evolve and change. Resources are provided.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Patterns and Matchsticks

For Students 5th - 6th
For this math patterns worksheet, students solve 10 problems in which a pattern is made with matchsticks on a grid. Students figure out how many matchsticks it will take to continue the pattern. Students also use simple algebra to figure...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Visual Patterns: Balloons

For Students 6th - 8th
Balloons aren't just for little kids; they can teach important math concepts, too. Individuals use an interactive to continue a color pattern with balloons. They continue the pattern and write a mathematical expression to represent the...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Writing Basic Equations: Stars and Moons

For Students 6th - 8th
You'll be over the moon about finding a useful resource for describing patterns. Aspiring mathematicians drag moon and star shapes to complete a shape pattern. Additionally, they must write an algebraic equation to describe the pattern.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Visual Patterns: Building the Queen's Tower

For Students 6th - 8th
A resource fit for a queen. Scholars recognize and continue a pattern in towers people are building for a queen. They write and use an algebraic expression for the number of tiles in the towers.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Basic Visual Patterns: Train Cars

For Students K - 2nd
An interactive comprised of five questions challenges young scholars to complete a simple pattern. After examining a train with colored carts, learners arrange a green, blue, and yellow block into their corresponding space. Questions are...
Assessment
Mathematics Assessment Project

Sidewalk Stones

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
One block, two blocks, white blocks, gray blocks. In the high school assessment task, learners investigate patterns of sidewalk stones to develop a quadratic expression for each colored block. Young mathematicians then use the expression...
Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Conference Tables

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils analyze a pattern of conference tables to determine the number of tables needed and the number of people that can be seated for a given size. Individuals develop general formulas for the two growing number patterns and...
Activity
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Terry Kawas

One Hundred Shoes

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Practice counting and patterns in one fun activity! After discussing the word cent and what it means, kids count the number of body parts on the centimeter and add two legs to each. They then determine if there is a faster way to...
Assessment
Bowland

Three of a Kind

For Teachers 6th - 9th
One is chance, two is a coincidence, three's a pattern. Scholars must determine similarities and differences of a regular hexagon undergoing dilation. They look at lengths, angles, areas, and symmetry.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Finish the Sequence

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this math worksheet, students discover patterns in geometric shapes by completing 4 patterns. Students study and consider the pattern shown and continue it on the lines provided.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Global Music Patterns- Islamic Art

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students compose music using Islamic patterns. In this cultural arts lesson, students examine Islamic art and analyze the patterns. Students incorporate various Islamic patterns into a musical composition.
Worksheet
Math Mammoth

Add & Subtract Whole Hundreds 1

For Students 3rd
In this mathematics worksheet, 3rd graders compare the problem 2700 plus 200 to the problem 27 plus 2 and explain their reasoning. Then they notice the patterns for each of the problems and continue them.
Lesson Plan
National Wildlife Federation

The Tide is High, but I’m Holding On… Using ICESat Data to Investigate Sea Level Rise

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Based on the rate of melting observed from 2003-2007 in Greenland, it would take less than 10 minutes to fill the Dallas Cowboys' Stadium. The 17th lesson in a series of 21 has scholars use the ICESat data to understand the ice mass...
Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Gorongosa: Making Observations Activity

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Do you have young scientists wanting to make new discoveries rather than just completing the same experiments? Young scientists use their observational skills to identify animals and patterns in animal behavior. Through tracking...