Lesson 11: Make Patterns With Shapes

Time: 60 minutes

Materials: Lesson 11 video; The Daily Doodle digital notebook.

Overview: Students begin to construct their character’s headdress using the power of patterns. 

They get acquainted with what patterns are and their various forms—shapes, numbers, colors, sounds—repeated at regular intervals. Students learn that the key to creating a pattern is that the components of the pattern must follow a given rule that orders how the numbers, colors, shapes and sounds are arranged. Number patterns often use the rule of adding or multiplying a number. Shape patterns often repeat or grow. 

In The Universe Within, students make shape patterns and decide what rule they’ll use to organize those shapes. They use regular geometric shapes…like circles, squares, rhombuses…and unusual shapes too as long as they can make them again for their shape patterns. The patterns will need to fit somewhere on their headdresses. 

They draw a schematic of their patterns. They think about the size of their patterns, and where they’ll attach it to the headdress later on.