ABSTRACT
This chapter describes another unit of science teaching, this time about patterns themselves, first examining patterns in the abstract and then applying patterns to an exploration of music and sound. It reviews what people already have and then author ask the class if they can see any patterns in what is written there. The children suggested that certain patterns of observations were related, and then they tested those relationships out publicly. Through this process of public demonstration, communication, and discussion of results, these explorations got more and more systematic. Designs are metaphors for what can be done with them. The scientist is the creative agent in the dialectic between pattern and irregularity which intersects within the phenomenon. Acting systematically to alter one variable at a time means acting within an established pattern. Doing this in conjunction with theorizing is a mental pattern of logic-making, testing, and altering.
