Math Station #6: Creating Patterns
Skill/ Content and Objective:
Materials:
Description:
STEP 1:
1. First, use one of the pattern block laminated sheets and try creating your own pattern.
2. Use an unlaminated sheet to color in the design you made on the laminated sheet.
STEP 2: CHALLENGE:
1. Artists use patterns all the time. Examine the laminated examples of Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs and basic quilt block designs.
2. Use the pattern blocks to create a hex or quilt block inspired design.
3. Record your pattern on a recording sheet (blank piece of paper) - you may trace the shapes of the pattern blocks if you need to.
Differentiation Suggestions:
Assessment: Formative and Summative:
Reference:
Houghton-Mifflin Math Expressions: Grade K: Teaching Tools: Visual Support
Skill/ Content and Objective:
- Create your own artistic design using shapes and patterns
- Identify and extend a shape pattern
- Recognize patterns
- Extend patterns
- Make predictions
Materials:
- Pattern blocks (assorted shapes and colors)
- Laminated pictures of quilt blocks and Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs
- Houghton Mifflin sheets: laminated sheets (to create designs) and unlaminated sheets (to be colored in as recording sheets):
- Pattern Blocks: Hexagons and Trapezoids
- Pattern Blocks: Triangles and Parallelograms
- Pattern Grid A: Triangles
- Pattern Grid B: Triangles
- Pattern Grid C: Triangles
- Blank sheets of paper (for Step 2 challenge)
- Markers and/or crayons and/or colored pencils
Description:
STEP 1:
1. First, use one of the pattern block laminated sheets and try creating your own pattern.
2. Use an unlaminated sheet to color in the design you made on the laminated sheet.
STEP 2: CHALLENGE:
1. Artists use patterns all the time. Examine the laminated examples of Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs and basic quilt block designs.
2. Use the pattern blocks to create a hex or quilt block inspired design.
3. Record your pattern on a recording sheet (blank piece of paper) - you may trace the shapes of the pattern blocks if you need to.
Differentiation Suggestions:
- For students who really want to try different and more complex Pennsylvania Dutch hex designs, incorporate these books into the math station for them to explore: Pennsylvania Dutch Cut and Use Stencils by JoAnne C. Day and Hex Signs: Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Symbols & Their Meaning by Don Yoder. Have them show their designs to the class and talk about what patterns are present in their work. These may be put on display in the classroom.
- There are also numerous childrens books on quilts and many art books featuring quilt designs that you can pop into this station.
- Print out and laminate a copy of Owen Sounds' Underground Railroad Quilt Codes and see if students can try recreating these quilt blocks, which feature very basic geometric designs. Again, have students show their designs to the class and talk about what patterns are present in their work; these may also be put on display in the classroom.
Assessment: Formative and Summative:
- I Can list/ recording sheets
- The Houghton-Mifflin pattern sheets colored in with student designs
- Blank sheets of paper with student-created designs (hex- or quilt-inspired, created first with pattern blocks and then replicated)
Reference:
Houghton-Mifflin Math Expressions: Grade K: Teaching Tools: Visual Support
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