Identifying and Creating Visual Patterns

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: What Is a Pattern?

• A pattern can be made of parts, shapes, or objects that repeat themselves in the same way over and over again.

Lesson 2: Recognizing Types of Patterns

• An ABAB pattern is made up of two parts that follow each other in the same order.
• An AABB pattern is made of two parts that work in pairs and repeat themselves in the same order to make a pattern.

Lesson 3: What Comes Next?

• Extend means to make something longer.
• To extend a pattern means to continue the pattern where it ends, making it longer.

Lesson 4: Extending a Pattern

• Patterns can be repeated over and over again.

Lesson 5: Making Color Patterns

• Patterns can be made using a variety of color combinations.

Lesson 6: Shapes and Patterns

• An ABC pattern has three separate members/objects that repeat themselves in the same order.

Lesson 7: Making Number Patterns

• Numbers and objects can be used to create patterns.

Lesson 8: Creating and Writing About Patterns

• To find a pattern, you have to look for the parts in the pattern and how the parts repeat themselves.

Final Project: Patterns Poster or Patterns Presentation

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