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Classifying Living Things
Students identify how to classify living things. They classify various concepts including family members, kinds of clothing, numbers, shapes, and vocabulary words. They discuss how to classify various concepts and classify pictures of...
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Math: Sorting by Attributes
Students draw their version of a Squiggy following teacher modeling. They describe their Squiggies in a partner or small group setting and choose an attribute for a class Squiggy sort. Students discuss attributes of people and different...
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Sorting with Venn Diagrams
Students classify items and numbers on Venn Diagrams using computer applets. They find the similarities and differences in everyday objects.
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Halloween Candy Sort
Students use their Halloween candy to practice sorting and classifying. They compete a Venn diagram comparing their candy wrappers. They develop ways as a class to catorgize the candy in different ways.
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Classifying Objects
Fourth graders work in small groups to sort and classify a variety of objects. They develop criteria for sorting and explain the characteristics they chose for classification. Groups record and share their classifications.
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Gummy Bear Sorting
Students demonstrate knowledge of sorting and classifying by color as they sort gummy bear candies.
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Bag the Beans
Students work in pairs to sort several beans into different piles according to a rule they make up. They use manipulatives to solve complex mathematical problems.
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Shoeless Math
First graders sort and classify, and complete a T-chart using Students' shoes.
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What's the Texture?
Students sort, classify, and write about how they sort a variety of shells.
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Fish Eyes Sort
Students sort, classify and write about what characteristics they used to sort fish counters.
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Cars, Trucks, and Things that Go Sorting Fun!
First graders sort toys by various attributes. They, in groups, sort toy vehicles by color, size etc. and then explain how they chose to group the toys. They write, draw or dictate an explanation of their sorting methods.
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M & M Math
Students sort M & Ms by a given attribute, and estimate how many M & Ms are in two bags. They graph their M & Ms and conclude which color they have the most and least of, then students combine sets of M & Ms together and...
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Hats
Students listen to a read aloud of "Hats, hats, hats," by Ann Morris focusing on the variety of hats. They play a file folder game categorizing hats from the book.
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Sorting and Classifying
Students explain why objects area grouped and sequenced in a certain order. For this sorting and classifying lesson plan, students use the website Studyzone.org.
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Heave, Ho the Cargo!
Students identify, sort and graph samples of goods from the Great Lakes. In this science and math lesson, students describe a "good" and sort them into living and non-living categories. Students graph the results.
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Fun at Pick up Time
Students discuss how to sort objects. In this classification lesson, students sort toys, or objects, by color, noise, or whatever they decide upon.
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Identify, Sort, Classify
Students improve their identifying, sorting, and classifying skills. In this categorizing lesson, students use cubes to practice their sorting, classifying, and identification skills.
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Sorting Sizes
Students follow a pattern. In this sorting instructional activity, students are given various objects and they must sort them from smallest to largest.
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Venn Diagram with Blocks
Fifth graders classify blocks according to their attributes. For this math lesson, 5th graders will identify attributes of blocks, sort them, then form the groups into a Venn Diagram, and write ratios using the attributes.
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Challenge: Cute As A Button
In this sorting worksheet, students look at pictures of different kinds of buttons and answer questions to sort them. There are three questions to answer.
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Sort Objects
For this sorting objects worksheet, students learn to sort and count objects. Students then answer questions based specific button shapes and colors.
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Monkey Mayhem
In this sorting and categorizing worksheet, students take complete a graphing experiment using monkeys in a bag. Students graph their results on the piece of paper.
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Cat Nap
In this shape recognition worksheet, students cut out the shapes and then sort them. Students match the shape to the correct column and glue them to the page.
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Sort and Color: 100 Bears
In this math worksheet, students sort the colors of gummy bears in the hands on activity. Then they color the bears on the sheet.