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Better Lesson: Count the Ways to Have Fun! Sorting on the I Pad

For Teachers K Standards
A part of the sorting and classifying standard that can be overlooked relates to assigning a number count to a group of similar objects. This instructional activity helps students find similar groups and practice counting and relating...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lord of the Crumbs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cookie Monster is Gobble in Lord of the Crumbs! Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort objects by color.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cookies of the Caribbean

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Go on a pirate adventure with Cookie Monster! Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort objects by color.
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Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Read Works

Read Works:classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Sorting to Predetermined Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Sort and Count Ii

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to sort the same set of objects according to different attributes and to practice counting to tell the number of objects in a set. The teacher should accept any way the child wants to sort the...
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TES Global

Tes: Vocabulary Sorting Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Beginning readers or ELL/ESL/EL students. This reproducible tool can used to sort new vocabulary words into different categories.
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Pre K Pages: Sorting Activities for Preschool

For Teachers Pre-K
This article contains activities and ideas for teaching sorting skills in preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classrooms. Teach children to sort using various attributes.
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Stay at Home Educator: Colors and Shapes Sorting Activities for Preschoolers

For Teachers Pre-K
Sorting activities are the perfect way to help children learn to classify their world from the start. This article explains why this skill is so important in the "real world" and contains a list of sorting activities for preschoolers.
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Better Lesson: Fall Sorting Fun

For Teachers K Standards
Students color seasonal images and sort them 3 different ways.
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Better Lesson: Sorting by Size

For Teachers K Standards
Sorting is an important foundational skills for kindergarten students to learn. Using attribute blocks to sort by size helps students practice comparing objects and prepares them to sort by other measurable attributes.
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Better Lesson: Sorting by Shape

For Teachers K Standards
Sorting is an important foundational skills for kindergarten students to learn. Using attribute blocks to sort by shape helps students practice comparing objects and prepares them to sort measurable attributes.
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Better Lesson: Learning to Sort Same and Different

For Teachers K Standards
Students will be able to compare objects.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Hungry Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cookieness Evereat needs your help to win The Hungry Games. Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Observable Properties of Matter

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners will sort objects according to their observable properties, such as size, shape, color, temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light) and texture. Included are printable resources, a...
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Kindergarten Unit: Real and Make Believe

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan where learners learn the difference between real and make-believe and practice sorting details into the two categories. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Sorting Our Way to P H

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this activity, young scholars first sort a group of objects by their outward appearance. They then dip each object in red cabbage juice, and sort them again by how they reacted to the juice. The purpose of the exercise is to...
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Read Works

Read Works: Classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Creating Groups and Sorting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into categories they create for themselves. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Teaching With Collections [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan is great for young learners who like to collect things. It gives you ideas of ways to teach such concepts as classifying, sorting, arranging, multiplying, graphing, and measuring with collections of simple objects.
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Better Lesson: Equal Groups (Review)

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Comparing the number of objects in two groups, using one-to one-correspondence, is a foundational skill that students will build on as they begin to compare numbers. This instructional activity will allow students to practice this skill...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Weathering the Windchill: How Does Wind Speed Affect Objects?

For Students 9th - 10th
With this science fair project measure the effect of wind speed on how quickly an object cools. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a section on...
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The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: Classified

For Students Pre-K - 1st
At this site from The Franklin Institute you can practice classifying objects according to physical structure and characteristics.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Bursting With Math"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using "Starburst" jelly beans to sort, graph and add.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Critical thinking, comprehension and analysis skills are the focus of this physical activity. Good beginning to teaching different ways of looking at things.

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