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Mathematics Patterning With Colours - Early Years
(Paint - Patterns With Colours - PR-II.1.1)

(Originally from the Inner City Technology Goals Document – June 1997)

Description:
Students create patterns in a pre-designed grid created in Paintbrush and shared from the server.

Math: Yes

TypeLessonPlan: Unit Plan - complete unit

TechnologySkills: Edit, Copy and Paste, Fill colour, Scissor tool

SoftwareUsed: Paintbrush

EarlyYears: Yes

MiddleYears:

S1-S4:

SpecificGrade:

Submittedby: Brian Proctor

E-mail: proctor@minet.gov.mb.ca

Details:
In PC Paintbrush, use the box tool to create a box. Use the Scissor tool to cut out the box. Use Edit/Copy and Edit /Paste to make a grid of identical boxes. Save your paintbrush file to your To Student Drive on your server.

Have students access the paintbrush file from the server. Students will use the Color Fill tool to design patterns in the grid. ABC AABBCC etc.

Patterns could be saved or blank grids printed fro classroom follow-up activities.


Extensions (literature links, Further Explorations, etc)
The use of the scissor tool enables the copying and pasting of objects. Limitless patterning activities can be generated this way, either by teachers or students themselves. Animals: bear cat eagle, Shapes: triangle hexagon etc.

This is also a good way of introducing the children to the vast copying power that a computer possesses. If the students make any object, any number of that object can be generated using the scissor, copy paste sequence over and over again. i.e. 1 2 4 8 16 32 64






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