Pattern Makers on the Move - Year 1

Students find the complete part that repeats and keep its order when they continue, create or translate a pattern. Five complete 45-minute lessons build from concrete actions and objects to shapes, symbols and numbers. Models include AB, AAB, ABB, ABC and AABB, with accurate discussion of a single-item unit and the distinction between a smallest AB unit and a longer repeating ABAB chunk.

Two practical activities let students make a pattern, find its repeating part, use a fixed legend and explain the next unit. Students reset the mat between representations. D6 offers optional complexity after the core outcome; optional extension is not a gate for the core assessment.

What's included

• 56-page Unit Plan PDF: contents, one-page Teacher Quick Start, five complete lesson plans and 49 resource pages.
• Four colour references.
• Nine practice worksheets and nine matching red answer pages, placed as pairs.
• Movement Message Kit: ten pages, six tasks, rules/model, two piece banks, blank 16-slot mat, two records and two checking guides.
• Pattern Design Studio: ten pages, six tasks, rules/model, three piece banks, two records and two checking guides; reuse the supplied mat.
• Five banks of 24 cut pieces: eight of each pictured type, 120 pieces overall.
• Two formal assessment sheets with red sample answers.
• Practical observation record, marking/next-step guide and rubric.
• 24-slide editable teaching presentation (PPTX).
• 22-slide editable quiz (PPTX): ten question/answer pairs, cover and closing slide.
• 102-page watermarked Preview of the complete Unit Plan and both decks.
• Separate clean Table of Contents JPEG.

Learning focus

Recognise an ordered repeating pattern; identify its smallest complete unit; continue from a given stopping point, including a partial unit; create an independent repeating pattern; transfer the same structure to another representation using a consistent map; explain the order and repeating part.

Classroom use

Use across five lessons, in teacher modelling, partner activities and independent practice. Read instructions aloud where needed. Students may point, use seated actions, move prepared pieces, draw, speak or have an adult record a response. Collect independent evidence with the fresh formal sheets and practical probes, and record access support separately from mathematical prompting. The native movable-piece ABC slide is used in normal PowerPoint edit view; printed pieces provide an alternative.

Teacher benefits

Complete lesson timing and modelling; supplied kit rules, pieces, mat, records and checks; three main units plus a next unit for the largest taught tasks; explicit transfer between representations; matched answers; practical and formal evidence for next teaching steps.

Digital product and licence

Digital teaching resource; no physical item supplied. See the Sukindi product licence for permitted use. The watermarked Preview is for viewing the resource.

Formats, page counts and answers

Unit Plan PDF: 56 portrait pages.

Presentation PPTX: 24 landscape slides.

Quiz PPTX: 22 landscape slides.

Preview PDF: 102 pages, retaining portrait resource pages and the decks' landscape geometry.

Table of Contents JPEG: clean export of Unit Plan page 1.

Nine practice-and-answer pairs; two formal assessment-and-answer pairs; four activity checking-guide pages. Open creation tasks show a valid sample and accept other coherent correct responses. Printed resources are PDF artwork; teaching and quiz slides are editable. The Preview is watermarked.