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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 5

Algebra - The learner will model simple patterns and sort objects.

Objective 5.02

Create and extend patterns with actions, words, and objects.

Resources aligned to this objective

Gingerbread Man Fun
This lesson will allow students to demonstrate sense of beginning, middle, and end of a story. They will also use various objects to create patterns comparing these objects using appropriate vocabulary (small, medium, large).
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Rebecca Jones.

Resources on the web

What's Next?
Students make patterns, read patterns, and find patterns in the environment. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Teaching shapes using read-alouds, visualization, and sketch to stretch
This ReadWriteThink lesson encourages strategic reading and real-world math connections using a variety of techniques. Students explore shape and pattern through an adapted sketch to stretch strategy and read-alouds of winter-themed books. In the final... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Sorting Time
Students sort objects and symbols and make patterns with sorted objects. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Sorting
Students develop the idea that information can be more easily managed and retrieved if it is logically sorted and stored, using the example of books in a library. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sing and Show Patterns
Engages students in creating patterns with movement and translating the patterns into other forms. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics and Music Education)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Show and Tell
Students describe their graphs using appropriate vocabulary and to develop skills in posing and responding to questions about their graphs. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Repeating and Growing Patterns
Students create and explore more complex patterns such as “growing patterns,” which have related but different relationships to “repeating patterns.” (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Powerful Patterns: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Students are provided with buttons or pasta and are asked to make a pattern that is then described to the class. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Playing with Patterns
Students use objects and symbols to make repeating linear patterns. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
My Button Is...
Students make use of the properties enumerated in the previous segments of this nine-part unit. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Multiple Patterns
Students explore patterns that involve doubling. They use objects and numbers in their exploration and record them using a table. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
More Patterns
Students extend their knowledge of linear patterns by making patterns on a grid using shapes and other symbols. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics and Music Education)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Measuring with Teacher's Foot
Students use nonstandard units to measure the distance between objects found in their classroom. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Measuring with Our Foot
Students measure distances using an outline cutout of their own foot. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
A matter of pattern
Students will concretely experiment with patterns by creating and predicting patterns formed when making paper snowflakes. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Many Ways to Create Patterns
Students use knowledge and skills in new situations to develop a solid understanding of the process for creating patterns, recognizing pattern sequences, and representing patterns in different ways. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Many Sets of Buttons
Students classify buttons and make disjointed and overlapping Venn diagrams. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Making Patterns: Two-Square Repeating Patterns
Students create and analyze repeating patterns using pattern units of three, four, and five squares. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Making Patterns: Multiple-Square Repeating Patterns
Students create and analyze repeating patterns using pattern units of three, four, and five squares. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics