Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Rectangle Pattern Challenges
Students use rectangles to explore patterns. Once they understand the concept, students can create their own patterns for others to explore.
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math for the Fun of It
This compilation of math activities engages parents and children in the use of math whenever they are at home. Packed with concise, high interest activities, related illustrations, detailed "parent pointers," and easy to following...
Other
20/20 Technologies: The Fruit Game (Using Patterns)
The Fruit Game is an interesting interactive game that will capture the attention of students in the study of finding and using patterns. Much like a game of tic-tac-toe, a pattern to winning must be discovered and used. The site clearly...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The Art Zone
Ten interactive activities that allow you to use the computer to create and manipulate works of art.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Rotational Symmetry
This is a good site for elementary teachers to help educate students about symmetry by using pattern blocks. This link has multiple activities that the instructor could use including technological and standard activities.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Valentine's Day Puzzle
In this fun learning activity for children the candy has fallen out of the Valentine box! Students must click and drag the candy to put it back into the box. Children practice mouse manipulation and patterns in this fun activity.
PBS
Pbs: Code Breaking: Harley Gets a Hint
In this video, Harley moves in with Harry and makes Harry's life miserable. Harley spies on Harry writing in his diary. When Harley "borrows" the diary, he finds it is written in a code using numbers. Harley figures out a pattern with...
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Talking Textiles: How Do Textiles Talk?
Interactive series of graphics, with samples of the Bayeux Tapestry and an adire cloth from Nigeria Explains how to look closely at the imagery, color, and patterns of textiles to undercover their hidden meanings and symbolic content.
National Geographic
National Geographic: The Politics of Place Naming
Students use an online geographic information system (GIS) to uncover the geographic and social context of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. They map street locations to identify regional patterns in honoring King, consider...
Rice University
Rice University: The Hand Squeeze
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...
PBS
Pbs: Oops! A Game for Dealing With Embarrassment
Explore feelings of embarrassment and discuss ways to cope with those feelings. Match halves of patterned paper in the shape of pants and hang them on a "clothesline."
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Simon
A variation of "Simon Says," this game requires students to mimic other students' jumping and landing patterns.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Numbers and Counting: Counting to 50
Did you know that counting and all numbers are based on tens and that everything starts over when you hit a number with a "0" in the ones column? This lesson provides strategies and pattterns for counting to fifty and includes two...
Cyberbee
Fingerprinting
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about fingerprinting! Provides links to a brief history of fingerprinting, FBI Kids site, a lesson in classification, fingerprinting identification and a game.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Wind
What is wind? How is it caused? This site offers simple answers to many common questions about wind as well as a chart of the Beaufort scale, which "is an empirical measure for the intensity of the weather based mainly on wind power."