Patterns are Everywhere

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Moon Rock Patterns 

Grade: 1-3

Summary: Here is a simple and fun activity about patterns.  Look at the pattern the spaceship leaves behind and place the appropriate moon rock on the question mark to complete the pattern. A perfect score is 400! Can you do it?

How to Integrate:  Shared, Modeled, Independent

Pattern Generator

Grades: 1-3


Look at the pattern and see if you can continue it.  It has three levels of difficulty.


How to integrate: Shared, Modeled, Independent

Crack Hacker's Safe
Grades: 3 and up

Summary: Crack Hacker's safe by figuring out the pattern.  Each pattern has two or three attributes that you must figure out.  It could be colour, number or shape!  

How to integrate: Shared, Modeled, Independent

Pattern Quest
Grades: 5 and up

Summary: Guess the secret pattern by choose 4 out of the 6 shapes. You have 8 chances to change your guesses until you guess the right pattern.

How to integrate: Shared, Modeled, Independent

Playing with Patterns
Grade: 1 - 2

Summary: A quick introduction to what patterning. Students will use shapes to create simple patterns.

How to integrate: Shared, Modeled, Independent


Who's Missing
Grades: 2-4

Summary: Look at what's is missing and try to figure out by looking at the pattern. 

Level 1:
Level 2:
Level 3


How to integrate: Shared, Modeled, Independent


Music Pattern
Grades: 1-3


Summary: Listen to the pattern and see if you can figure out what comes next.  Patterns can be sound too!


How to integrate: Shared, Modeled, Independent

Types of Graphs

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Under the Sea! - Data Analysis 
Grades: 2-3


Summary: Learn Alberta has always short fun lessons for each strand.  In the Data Analysis, students can choose two topics - Organizing Data and Creating Bar Graphs. Here is a breakdown of the activities:


Organizing Data:
Crystal #1 - Tally Marks
Crystal #2 - Tally Chart
Crystal #3 - Line Plot
Crystal #4 - Line Plot


Creating Bar Graphs: 
Crystal #1 - Use tally chart to create bar graph
Crystal #2 - Label the data on the bar graph
Crystal #3 - Label the Bar Graph
Crystal #4 - Use the data in the bar graph to answer questions

How to integrate: Shared, Modeled, Independent

Bar Graphs - Interactive
Summary: A great interactive tool to use on the SmartBoard to show how we create bar graphs.

How to integrate: Shared


Exploring Graphing - Concrete Graph
Grades: 1-2

Summary: Olivia octagon will give a quick lesson on why it's important to use graphs. 

How to integrate: Shared



Counting Animals - Concrete Graph 
Grades: 1-2

Summary: Count the animals and shade in the box.

How to integrate: Shared



Cyber Chase - Bugs in the System
Grades: 2-3

Summary: It seems there's an infestation in cybrary.  Help graph the different colour bugs in each of the rooms to see how many there are altogether.

How to integrate: Shared, Independent

Make your own Pictograph
Grades: 1-3

Summary:  Show your students how to make a simple pictograph using this website.  You can customize the Picture, Scale and add a description and a title to your graph.

How to integrate:  Shared, Independent

Interpreting Data

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Bar Graph 
Grades: 2-3
Summary: Using either horizontal and vertical bar graphs, students will learn to interpret the graph by extracting important information from the graph.  There are a variety of graphs to choose from.

How to integrate: Shared, Modeled


Pictograph
Grades: 2-3

Summary: Using horizontal and vertical pictograph, students must extract information from the pictographs.  There are a choice of units to change the scale of the pictograph.  Three questions to answer are:  How many ... ?, How many more... than ... ? How many fewer ... than ...? 

How to integrate: Shared, Modeled

Calculator Tally
Grades: 2-3

Summary: An easy start to having kids look at the data before it's put into the table.
How to integrate: Shared, Modeled