Description

What our Patterns lesson plan includes

Lesson Objectives and Overview: Patterns introduces the concept of patterns with experiential practice for young students. In this lesson, students will identify patterns with shapes and figures, in numbers, as well as with colors. At the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify patterns with shapes and figures, in numbers, as well as with colors. The students will also be able to create patterns using numbers, shapes, and colors. This lesson is for students in 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade.

Classroom Procedure

Every lesson plan provides you with a classroom procedure page that outlines a step-by-step guide to follow. You do not have to follow the guide exactly. The guide helps you organize the lesson and details when to hand out worksheets. It also lists information in the blue box that you might find useful. You will find the lesson objectives, state standards, and number of class sessions the lesson should take to complete in this area. In addition, it describes the supplies you will need as well as what and how you need to prepare beforehand.

Options for Lesson

Included with this lesson is an “Options for Lesson” section that lists a number of suggestions for activities to add to the lesson or substitutions for the ones already in the lesson. One optional addition to the lesson activity is to distribute extra copies of the cut-outs for students’ use. You can also have your students draw and design original shapes, numbers, and colors to use instead of shapes/numbers given for the activity. You could also prepare the shapes and figures for the activity ahead of time, or use usual classroom manipulatives for students to create patterns.

Teacher Notes

The teacher notes page includes a paragraph with additional guidelines and things to think about as you begin to plan your lesson. This page also includes lines that you can use to add your own notes as you’re preparing for this lesson.

PATTERNS LESSON PLAN CONTENT PAGES

Patterns

The Patterns lesson plan includes two content pages. All around you, you’ll see repeating colors, numbers, shapes, or designs. If you count by 2s, that’s a number pattern. If you look at the United States flag, you’ll see a pattern in the colors of the stripes.

We call colors, shapes, numbers, or other designs that are organized or repeated in a special way patterns. There are patterns all around you! Patterns show up in math, in nature, in your home, on your clothing, and in many other times and places.

Patterns follow rules. For example, counting by 2s in a number pattern; the rule for this pattern is to add 2 to each new number. Clothing sizes follow the same pattern: small, medium, large. We most often see patterns with shapes, colors, numbers, or a combination of shapes, colors, and numbers. If you understand patterns, you’ll be better at making predictions.

Numbers

Letters and numbers often form patterns. The alphabet itself is a pattern, because the letters are in a specific order. When people learn to count, they learn to add one to each number to get the next one. That’s a pattern! There are lots and lots of number patterns.

The lesson includes a chart that shows the beginning of a number pattern in the left column and the rule that the pattern follows in the right column. For example, it lists 12, 11, 10, 9, 8… in the left column and the rule counting backwards and subtracting one in the right column. Following the rule, the next two numbers in this pattern are 7 and 6.

Shapes

Shapes are all around us! Students learn about many different shapes in math class, such as squares, rectangles, circles, and triangles. Some other shapes include hearts, stars, crosses, and more. You can make an endless number of patterns using shapes.

The lesson includes a chart that shows the beginning of a shape pattern in the left column and the rule that the pattern follows in the right column. Shape patterns can include different types, sizes, or numbers of shapes. Shapes show up all over the place—on clothing, in designs for buildings, and even on the walls of homes or businesses.

Colors

We often see color patterns combined with either the same or different shapes. Everything can have a color, so color patterns are very common.

The lesson includes a chart that shows the beginning of a color pattern in the left column and the rule that the pattern follows in the right column. Colors can be combined with numbers and shapes to make many different patterns!

Other Patterns

Patterns come in many different forms. We can find and create patterns using pictures, drawings, or other images. The lessons shows four patterns and asks students to identify what the rule is for each.

Patterns come in many shapes, colors, sizes, and designs. Learning to identify patterns will help you predict what comes next. You can also find patterns in people’s behavior! For example, if you wake up and go to sleep each day at the same time, that’s your sleeping pattern.

PATTERNS LESSON PLAN WORKSHEETS

The Patterns lesson plan includes three worksheets: an activity worksheet, a practice worksheet, and a homework assignment. You can refer to the guide on the classroom procedure page to determine when to hand out each worksheet.

SHAPES ACTIVITY WORKSHEET

Students will work with a partner to complete the lesson activity. Each students will cut out the shapes and numbers on the worksheet and use the shapes and colored pencils to create patterns. Each of their patterns must have at least six images using numbers, shapes, or colors. As they make their patterns, they will ask their partner to guess the next shape, color, or number. Once each pair guesses each other’s patterns, they will glue each pattern on the construction paper.

COMPLETE THE PATTERN PRACTICE WORKSHEET

For the practice worksheet, students will correctly complete each pattern by drawing or writing in the next shape, number, or color in each sequence.

PATTERNS HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

The homework assignment asks students to first determine whether five questions about the lesson material are true or false. They will then identify the correct ending to complete different patterns. Finally, they will find two examples of patterns in their home or neighborhood and draw them on the worksheet.

Worksheet Answer Keys

This lesson plan includes answer keys for the practice worksheet and the homework assignment. If you choose to administer the lesson pages to your students via PDF, you will need to save a new file that omits these pages. Otherwise, you can simply print out the applicable pages and keep these as reference for yourself when grading assignments.