One partner begins a pattern by placing shells on the workmat. The other partner continues the pattern. Students describe the pattern to each other and the reasoning behind the choices made for continuing it. Students remove the shells, trade places, and repeat the activity several times. Students record their patterns with shapes, letters, or other symbols and compare them to patterns made by other groups.
Students compare the patterns found in two different pictures.
Students work in pairs. A partner, or the rest of the class in a whole-group activity, will replicate the pattern of movements. Students will then use action words to describe the pattern as they act it out. Students look at the words as they are acting out and saying the pattern. Later, students might try to remember the action pattern by looking at the words or illustrate the word pattern with appropriate action pictures.