Part of Lesson Plan: Generating Number Series with Reporter Blocks in BYOB/Scratch: A Scaffolding Tool for Teaching Java Methods in AP Computer Science

Activity Overview / Details

Students watch the following video which demonstrates the occurrence of the Fibonacci number series in nature.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuCPXzAhNM4

Students are first asked if they see a common thread or idea in all of these beautiful patterns from nature.

Ask if the students see a mathematical relationship between the natural objects depicted in the video.

Show the students the following image.