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CURIOSITY BAIT makes learning truly exciting for students and teachers. It promotes higher-level thinking and increases general knowledge with very little teacher preparation.
How does it work? With your Curiosity Bait Card Holder, you will "dangle" a mystery pattern by revealing one clue each day for a month. Your children will then team together as a community of learners to "unlock" the mystery before the month's end. Different patterns keep the learning lively.
Each kit contains ready-to-laminate pattern cards, pattern suggestions, blackline masters, and suggestions for journaling and other extensions. A Curiosity Bait Card Holder is sold separately.
There are five CURIOSITY BAIT products to choose from: 
 Curiosity Bait Card Holder
The CURIOSITY BAIT CARD HOLDER is custom designed to work with all sets of Curiosity Bait. This bright blue holder displays the "mystery of the month" from State Bait, Shape Bait, 3-D Shape Bait, Money Bait and Time Bait. It measures 30.5" X 25.5" and includes ready-to-laminate year, month and date cards. This holder keeps your daily Curiosity Bait activities organized and displayed.
3-D SHAPE BAIT
3-D SHAPE BAIT contains 96 pattern cards. Each card has a representation of a 3-D figure. The representation might look 3-D (solid or wire frame) or 2-D (net). Blacklines are provided so your children can construct their own models to match the illustration on the Pattern Card. An additional benefit is that 3-D SHAPE BAIT has been designed to match commercial geoblocks (optional) that you can easily obtain from a recommended source.
Here are some of the concepts your children will be encouraged to explore:
- faces, edges and vertices
- surface area and volume
- comparing and contrasting attributes
- cylinders, cones, pyramids, spheres, hemispheres, triangular, rectangular, hexagonal, and octagonal prisms
- planes of symmetry, centers of rotation, and more
- 2-D representations of 3-D shapes
SHAPE BAIT (2-D)
 Imagine a group of kindergarten children sitting in a circle, looking at a picture of a trapezoid and discussing its attributes. They count the sides. They count the points. They discover that this shape has the same number of sides and points. One child shares that it looks like a car. Another child says that you can fold it right down the middle and the two parts match just right. You say, "NO WAY!". We say, you should visit Miss Sherry Noland's class in Lakeland, Florida. Not only do her children do what we just described, they also use terms freely, such as "quadrilateral", "symmetry", and "trapezoid". Across the county, Kelly Roberts' 5th grade children are examining the same trapezoid. They measure the interior angles, the perimeter in centimeters and inches, the area in square centimeters and square inches. What we have just described happens in classrooms across the country who use SHAPE BAIT. Iit is a favorite for many teachers, because it provides such a comfortable setting for learning about the attributes of shapes.
The SHAPE BAIT book contains 72 plane geometric figures, each on its own pattern card. The 24 patterns provided range from simple to complex, which makes SHAPE BAIT applicable to all grades. As you reveal a new shape each day, your children will become deeply intrigued with the relative size and shape of plane geometric figures. They will love the way the BIG WORDS roll off their tongues, very much like they love learning the cool names of dinosaurs. Before long, your children will sound like mathematicians and use the language as if it were the most natural thing in the world. And- WOW -will your children make some brilliant observations. They will see things that you might have never noticed. For example, they may notice that every quadrilateral can be cut to form 2 triangles. How exciting! Or they may notice that the sum of every triangle's interior angles is always 180 degrees. Because the shapes are oriented in all sorts of directions, your children will learn that a square is a square...no matter how it is turned.
Mathematical topics used in SHAPE BAIT include line and rotational symmetry, parallel and perpendicular lines, concepts related to measurement, congruency, angle, polygons and non-polygons, open and closed figures, concave, convex shapes, etc. Children are challenged to research geometric properties and attributes in order to "unlock the mystery of the pattern".
MONEY BAIT
 MONEY BAIT is a collection of 175 pattern cards that feature pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, one, five, and ten dollar bills. The coins and bills are arranged in a variety of combinations and orientations. The Total Daily Value Grid encourages the use of the hundred-grid as a dollar-grid, visually showing 5 squares to represent a nickle, 10 to represent a dime, etc. The 40 suggested patterns included will challenge learners of all ages.
Children will improve their understanding of:
- coin recognition and value
- making change
- different combinations for the same value
You will also find a set of ready-to-duplicate charts, graphs, and tables. Younger children use these charts, graphs and tables to determine the difference between the number of pieces of money and the value of the pieces of money. Meanwhile, they learn to skip count by ones, fives, tens and even twenty-fives. Older children learn to check the graph with the total value, very much as an accountant would do.
TIME BAIT
 TIME BAIT is a set of 72 pattern cards that helps children make sense of ways we measure and track time. Time provides a natural setting for pattern exploration. It plays an important role in our lives and mandates many of our daily actions. Many of our routine patterns that repeat are connected with time such as day/night/day/night, etc.
You will pose mystery patterns using the myriad of clock pattern cards. Here are a few of the pattern choices:
- digital and analog clocks
- AM and PM
- military times
- time to the hour, half-hour, quarter, and minute
- elapsed time
- time zones
Your children will develop the language of time such as morning, afternoon, evening, day, night, hour, minute, before, after, time zone, and elapsed time. Meanwhile the calendar grid itself will be explored as a means of measuring time. As the tools for measuring and recording times are explored, your children will practice counting by twos, fives, sevens, tens, and twenty-fours. They will also explore adding and subtracting minutes and hours in a problem-solving setting.
The set of 20 ready-to-duplicate blackline masters will provide opportunities for your children to create Work Logs and Big Books, as well as charts dealing with time zones and world geography. Analogies will be explored and recorded as the patterns emerge. Recommended for grades K-5, the 30 pattern choices are appropriate for very young learners up to more mature learners.
STATE BAIT
 STATE BAIT consists of a set of 50 pattern cards, each showing the outline of a state boundary. You will reveal one state each day, in a mystery pattern. As your children "dig in" to solve the mystery, they will naturally turn to resources such as atlases, maps, and other reference materials. Authentic research in a problem-solving setting...WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE?
You choose the pattern, from the variety of suggested possibilities. Topics such as geographic location, alphabetical order, history, time zones, syllabication, vowels and consonants, and abbreviations set the stage for connections within the curriculum. Your children's general knowledge of our fifty states will be raised as higher-level thinking skills are sharpened.
We recommend using STATE BAIT with grades 2 and higher.
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