Pitter Patterns (SP)

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South Carolina & Georgia Schools

Pitter Patterns

Student Programs Lesson Information, Standards Correlations, and Post Visit Activities

Pitter Patterns: (Grades 4K & 5K • 60 minutes) Students will actively participate in multisensory activities featuring repeated sequences of colors, shapes, letters, sounds, and movements. The students will identify, describe, construct, and extend patterns, and they will analyze patterns to determine their rule. They will also look for patterns in nature using live animals.

Traveling Science Kits that support or extend this lesson
Related Children's Literature List
Pre & Post Visit Activities

This lesson supports the following mathematics standards:

South Carolina Schools

Georgia Schools

Grade K: SCMS 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Kindergarten Mathematics
Algebra
Standard K-3: The student will demonstrate through the mathematical processes an emerging sense of repeating and growing patterns and classification based on attributes.

Indicators:
3.1 Identify simple growing patterns.
3.2 Analyze simple repeating and growing relationships to extend patterns.
3.3 Translate simple repeating and growing patterns into rules.

Grade K: MKG3 a, b

Kindergarten Mathematics
MKG3: Students will identify, create, extend, and transfer patterns from one representation to another using actions, objects, and geometric shapes.

Indicators:
a. Identify a missing shape within a given pattern of geometric shapes.
b.Extend a given pattern, and recognize similarities (such as color, shape, texture, or number) in different patterns.

Please direct inquiries to:
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center
c/o Student Programs
USC Aiken, Box 3, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC 29801
(803) 641-3313 from Augusta 278-1967 Ext. 3313

RPSEC@usca.edu

Ruth Patrick Science Education Center
Center of Excellence in Educational Technology
University of South Carolina Aiken
471 University Parkway
Aiken, SC 29801
803-641-3313