Thursday, November 4, 2010

Content Exploration Tools Involving Patterns

While this is not a specific link, this is a good place for teachers to find videos to show to his.her class. The teacher can search for any videos about shapes and patterns, and if they find one, he/she can show it to the class. Fund videos are an exciting way for students to learn.

 This multiple choice game helps students recognize patterns by asking them to match a pattern with the one given to them. This is to help give them background information on shapes and get them used to recognizing generic patterns before trying to find them in nature.

This game helps students describe patterns by changing the shapes to letters and putting the letters in the same order as the shapes.

 This website has many different links to sites where students can learn about patterns. There is a song for students to listen to, guessing games about patterns, interactive games, and more. This game helps students learn what patterns are and learn how to recognize them. 

 This website has many different images of different quilt patters. The teacher can project these images onto the blackboard or wall and show the students exactly where the patterns and shapes are. This is a good way for the teacher to show what the students need to learn and explain to them what they need to look for.

 This is another website the teacher can use to explain to the students where to look for patterns and shapes in nature. This website contains pictures the teacher can show the class that show obvious patterns. This could also be used by showing the images and asking the students to say what shapes and patterns they see.

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