For your birthday you mother bought you many different colors and shapes of beads. Your friend Suzy is sick and you thought about making her a necklace from your beads. To make the necklace the perfect size to fit Suzys neck you need a total of 40 beads. You have 50 of each color, but need to decide the way you want it to look. Your choices are: yellow stars, purple diamonds, red hearts, blue circles, green ovals, black squares, orange triangles, and pink rectangles. How should we make the necklace? What patterns would you use?
The Task~

The children will be engaged in doing a product to be designed. They will be making a necklace with different
patterns to give to their friend.

The Process~

1. Today class we will be learning about patterns
2. Visit these websites to practice patterns. The first website will have different shapes or patterns. You need to figure out the pattern that is being used and finish it. The second website

Patterns
Crack hacker's cafe

3. Everyone come up and get a piece of string to make your necklace. The string needs to be big enough to fit around your neck comfortably.
4. There are many different colors and shapes of beads here on the table.
5. Everyone gets to make their own necklace, but there is one rule: the beads have to be put into a pattern.

Evaluation~

The children will be working individually to make a patterned necklace. If the children need help, then the teacher will be there to offer help. The assignment will be graded as a final product on if the beads are in a pattern or not.

Conclusion~

By accomplishing this pattern activity the children will get an opportunity to make their own patterned necklace. The children will also get to practice patterns by going to a website and doing the different levels of determining patterns.

Credits & References~

Thanks to these two websites for providing activities for my students to learn their patterns :)
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/patterns/index.html
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/webisode_1/web_1game.html

Standard II
Students will identify and use patterns and relations to represent mathematical situations.

Objective 1
Recognize and represent patterns with one or two attributes.