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Coral Reef Community Drama: Scene Description

For Teachers K
Students are organized into groups and are assigned puppets according to what sea creature their group represents. In this reef lesson, students identify sea creatures according to their place in the food chain then discuss how these...
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Sorting By One Atrribute

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use different color items to sort by color and different attributes of the manipulatives given to them. For this sorting lesson plan, students also write a journal entry or draw a picture of their activity.
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Sorting Based on Character Traits

For Teachers 1st Standards
Characters from a story can be sorted by their traits, just like shapes or objects can. First the children list several character traits on a chart, they read a familiar story, and then sort the characters by their friendly or unfriendly...
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Sorting in More than One Way

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Sorting, categorizing, and classifying are skills learners must master for many different reasons. The class will work in small groups to list, classify, and sort a stack of familiar books. The neat part about the lesson is that the...
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Birdseed Mining

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore the meaning of mining. In this Science/Math activity, students engage in a small group activity to sort and calculate the value of seeds/beads.  Additionally, they are made aware of environmental damages which will...
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to sort and manage information.  In this organization lesson students complete an activity on sorting.
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Classifying and Sorting

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English worksheet, students add the suffix "ic". Students form adjectives by adding the suffix to nouns. Students choose the noun or adjective to complete the sentence.
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Recycling Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recycling worksheet, learners sort recycling items into paper, plastic, or aluminum bins. Students sort 7 items total on this worksheet.
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Shapes Graphing

For Students K - 1st
In this graphing data worksheet, students examine the 11 shapes pictured and use that information to finish an incomplete bar graph.
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study how things are stored and how information is retrieved.  In this investigative lesson students play a game that helps them to see how things are sorted in a library. 
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Lucky Charms Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students make a bar graph.  In this sorting and counting lesson, students use the Lucky Charms cereal to sort the marshmallows into separte cups, count how many marshmallows are in each cup and make a bar graph to compare the numbers.
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Wonderful Watermelons

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore watermelons and collect and sort their seeds. In this watermelons lesson plan, 1st graders read the story Down By The Bay and then weigh, measure, collect seeds, sort, and eat their watermelon.
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify how objects can be sorted or classified for easy access. In this sorting activity, students will investigate how letters, numbers, and symbols are used in sorting and classifying.
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The Button Box

For Teachers K - 1st
Students classify buttons. In this classification lesson, students listen to the book The Button Box  by Margarette S. Reid before observing, describing and classifying real buttons.
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Graphing Conversation Hearts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students collect data and create a graph. For this mathematics lesson, students separate paper hearts by color and create a graph showing the number of hearts of each color present. Students receive a handful of candy hearts that they...
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Are You One of Us?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners investigate how scientists sort and classify organisms. For this sorting and classifying lesson, students examine what systematics are as tools that scientists use. They examine images of invertebrates and sort them while...
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Billy Brown and The Belly Button Beastie

For Teachers Pre-K
Students read the book Billy Brown and The Belly Button Beastie and complete a variety of activities related to the book. In this reading lesson plan, students complete activities including discovering body parts, bubbles, retelling,...
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Under The Sea

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this resource lesson plan, students use non-fiction books to research ocean animals. Students discover the many features of non-fiction books and how to use these features to help them conduct research. Students then categorize ocean...
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Graphing Trash Material

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners investigate recycling. For this reuse and recycle lesson, students examine the number and kinds of materials they discard.  It also encourages them to think about taking action by reusing and recycling some of these items....
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Magnetic Frog Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the concept of patterns. In this pattern lesson, students sort frog magnets according their attributes and then use the magnets to create patterns.
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Living and Non-Living Things | What’s Alive?

For Teachers K
Students compare and contrast living and nonliving things. For this classification lesson, students read a book featuring living and nonliving things and then sort pictures of living and nonliving things.
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Sorting Gourds

For Teachers K
Students discover different types of gourds.  In this plant comparison lesson, students compare and contrast several types of gourds based on shape, color and texture.  Students observe a video clip based on sorting gourds.  
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Sorting 7 characteristics into venn diagrams

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this sorting worksheet, students sort African Animals into venn diagrams. Students sort 10 different animals into 2 different venn diagrams.
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All About Shoes

For Teachers K
Students sort shoes. In this sorting lesson, students use shoes to explore attributes and practice sorting. This lesson encourages the use of a Venn Diagram to aide in student sorting.