Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 08: Then and Now
This activity engages students in understanding the concepts of "past" and "present" events. Students will sort objects and discuss to reinforce segmentation and blending skills.
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Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Recycling: Old Made New [Pdf]
Students will observe the physical properties of items through an activity where they sort objects for recycling. This lesson plan also includes a recycle papermaking process.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Subtraction With Money
These interactive games will explore hexagons, counting, making change, and sorting objects.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Shape Classification
Investigate the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons using this interactive Learn Alberta math resource. Students are able to practice classifying shapes based on their different properties. Be sure to follow the...
ABCya
Ab Cya: States of Matter
States of Matter is an educational activity for kids to learn about the different properties of matter. The lesson will introduce solids, liquids, and gases. Students will then be assessed through a sorting activity where they will...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: Mexico: What Is Classifying?
Christina wants to classify all kinds of different things. Help her sort things into main groups.
Other
Sorico: Describing and Comparing Measurable Attributes
The following unit can be used to teach measurable attributes. Students will describe and compare two objects with a measurable concept in common using direct comparison. Included are necessary vocabulary, a scavenger hunt, and links to...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Describing Fall Leaves Through Words and Music
Students collect, describe, and sort leaves found outside. As a cross-curricular component, they will improvise on musical instruments in a way that they feel describes a dominant leaf characteristic.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Matching Game
Observe different shapes and colors of leaves, and match the leaves in this online interactive game. Discern the differences between members of the same family of objects.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fresh Pick Challenge: Logical Lunch
By using their deductive reasoning skills, children can help Henry and Avril pack a perfect picnic lunch. This activity will provide them with ways to use clues to solve a problem, group objects based on several attributes, and...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Same and Different
The Same and Different Donut Game is a pre-school activity to practice identifying objects that are the alike and not alike. Kids compare donuts based on shape, color and combinations of shape and color. After all rounds have been...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza Restaurant: Data & Length
Students practice ordering objects by height, length and weight on this interactive website by helping an owner of an Italian restaurant.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Counting Mixed Objects
Teachers can assess students knowledge of counting shapes with these printable worksheets.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Compare Numbers of Objects 2
Practice counting to see which group has the most things in it. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Other
Kinderweb: Educational Children's Games
Use this site to practice identifying shapes, colors, and animals with these interactive games.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Grow Fungi That Fires at Light Sources
In this science fair project, grow a culture of Pilobolus fungus and experiment with its ability to shoot spore sacs at light sources. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
SRI International
Performance Assessment Links in Science: Classifying Rocks
This is a performance task where students sort and classify rocks based on their properties, then demonstrate how they can transfer their understanding to decide on ways they might sort and classify other types of objects.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Shapes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed for an early childhood classroom and focuses on circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. Opportunities provided for student participation include drawing plane shapes,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Air, Land, & Water
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will be able to identify which category (air, land, or water) an object belongs to.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compare Order by Weight
[Free Registration/Login Required] Compare and order objects on the basis of weight.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Christmas Shopping
On this one page website sharpen your logic and problem solving skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Sweets in a Box
Improve logic and pattern creation skills performing this game. Includes solution.
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]
This two-part geometry lesson plan has students identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Proect Ideas: Investigating Inattentional Blindness
The goal of this human behavior science fair project is to investigate inattentional blindness and visual perception and see what percentage of a test population notices an unexplained object in a video. The Science Buddies project ideas...