Students study the basic elements of the Earth's crust: rocks, soils and minerals. They categorize rocks, soils and minerals and how they are literally the foundation for our civilization. They also explore how engineers use rock soils...

After learning why it is important to limit salt, fat, and sugar in their diets, divide your class into pairs or groups to complete this project. Each group will create two charts: unhealthy and healthy foods. They will cut out food...

Students select pets from available graphics to represent pets they own. They categorize the pets according to those that live inside the home, pets that live outside and a pet they would like to own. They generate sentences about each.

Young scholars practice classifying. In this classifying and oral language lesson, students listen to the story My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy and identify similarities between the trucks described. Young scholars sort the children in...

Students explore beginning research skills. In this nonfiction comprehension and research lesson, students generate possible research questions to answer when given the book title of Animals of the Sea and Shore by Ann O. Squire....

Students identify and categorize leaves. They collect leaves from trees, research the leaves using field guides and the Internet, press, label, and display the leaves, and discuss how the leaf reflects adaptation to its environment.

In this science/bird worksheet, students research, analyze and illustrate how to categorize birds, list facts about birds, and draw a picture of a bird.

In this recognizing word endings worksheet, students use the words in a word bank to categorize words with -ight, -eak, -ail, and -ow endings. Students write twelve short answers.

In this rhyming words worksheet, students use a word bank to categorize the list of words into four groups of rhyming words, adding one additional word of their own to each group. Students group sixteen rhyming words.

In this activities in a national park instructional activity, students read a list of activities, label them prohibited or permitted, and explain the reasons for their answers. Students categorize fourteen activities.

In this categorizing words with silent letters worksheet, students complete the chart by putting each word in the correct column according to the silent k, silent w, silent b, silent h, silent g, and silent c. Students write 18 words.

In this count nouns, mass nouns, and noun quantifiers worksheet, students categorize count nouns and mass nouns and fill in the blanks with the correct noun quantifiers. Students write 37 answers.

In this recognizing items that use electricity worksheet, students observe pictures of objects, cut them out, and paste them in either the square for Uses electricity or the square for Doesn't use electricity. Students categorize 12 items.

First graders sort pictures of animals into categories. In this sorting lesson plan, learners use the book On The Farm to categorize their animals.

Grab any two topics, some index cards, and a couple of kids, and you're ready to compare and contrast! The resource provides instructions for this method and three graphic organizers in addition to or in place of the index cards.

Set the Thanksgiving Day holiday table with a learning game that challenges participants to think critically about family members' likes and dislikes. Players scroll over a character to reveal what the requirements are for their...

For this writing worksheet, 3rd graders cut out 5 sets of words. They rearrange the words in each set until they form a sentence. They cut out blank squares, write words in them, and have a friend sort the words out to form a sentence.

Learners categorize information in the Yellow Pages. In this Let the Phone Book Get Them Talking! lesson, students find pictures in the Yellow Pages and thus gain a better understanding of how the book is organized. Learners locate local...

Second graders improve their spelling skills by reviewing antonyms for specific words. They work aloud with words and find their antonyms. They complete their own crossword puzzle and an activity crossword puzzle.

Upper graders become "shipwreck detectives" by studying the debris field from a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea which took place in the 700s.  A website is accessed that gives specific information about the debris field, and pairs of...

Music aficionados classify pop music into by musical genres or styles. They evaluate the positive and negatives of collaborative performances, view segments of VH1's "Save the Music" concert, and discuss the difficulties of...

In this science worksheet, students examine the graph with elements in order to differentiate atomic mass and categorizing the content.

Discover why plants are important to our world. View plant parts and categorize them as stems or buds. Students do a cut and paste of pictures of plants into correct categories.  Students also plant a carrot top,and record...

Use consonant digraphs to introduce learners to word patterns and high frequency words. They observe a chart with the digraphs /sh/, /ch/, /th/, and /wh/. After listening to each of these phonemes, scholars watch as the teacher...