Pattern Hunt
Age group
- Early Years (Age 3 to 6)
Curriculum Goal
Kindergarten: Demonstrating Literacy and Mathematics Behaviour
Recognize, explore, describe, and compare patterns, and extend, translate, and create them, using the core of a pattern and predicting what comes next (#18).
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Context
- Students and teacher explore the classroom and/or school property for patterns.
- Students should have prior experience exploring and making patterns.
Materials
- Pattern handout (Appendix A)
- Camera
- Pencils
- Pencil Crayons
Lesson
- Encourage students to search and select an identifiable pattern in the classroom or school.
- Take a photo of the selected pattern.
- Have the student paste the pattern onto Appendix A (or paste the photo yourself).
- In the blank box on the worksheet, students recreate the selected pattern with pencil crayons.
- On the lines provided, students describe the pattern they found and illustrated (e.g., I found an AB pattern in my classroom).
- After completion of the visual and written components of the handout, the worksheet should be displayed in the classroom so it can be shared with other students.
Look Fors
- Are children accurately identifying and describing patterns?
- What strategies do students use when searching and identifying patterns?