Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject: Math/Geometry
Topic: Patterning
Submitted by: Diana Gore - EMAT621 Fall 2007
MKG3. Students will identify, create, extend, and transfer patterns from one representation to another using actions, objects, and geometric shapes.
- Identify a missing shape within a given pattern of geometric shapes.
- Extend a given pattern, and recognize similarities (such as color, shape, texture, or number) in different patterns.
Skill: Students will know how to find a missing piece in a pattern; Students will know how to extend a pattern; Students will know how to make their own pattern.
Technology Strategies:
- Students will use the following website to predict which piece of a pattern is missing. This site is GREAT for differentiation!
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http://funschool.kaboose.com/preschool/games/game_crazy_pattern_machine_the.html |
- The following sites are also great sites for students to use to practice finding which piece of a pattern is missing:
| http://sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/games/flash.php?contentId=110880 |
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http://www.noggin.com/games/pwms/pwms/ |
- For extra practice or for a choice center, students can practice extending a pattern using the following website:
| http://www.haelmedia.com/html/mc_mk_002.html |
Note: This site is a little more advanced.
- As an extension, students can use the following website to practice creating and extending their own pattern out of beads:
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http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/beads.html |
- Students will go on an I-Spy patterns hunt to find all of the patterns they can find in their world around them. Each group of students will have an adult volunteer to assist them in taking digital pictures of the patterns that they find. The pictures will then be displayed on a bulletin board and will later be taken down to be made into a class book about patterns.
6. The teacher will take a digital picture of each student’s face. The students will then be able to use software such as Microsoft Publisher or Power Point to arrange their pictures into a pattern. Ex. Matt, Susie, Matt, Susie.