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Worksheet 9: Which Word Belongs?
In this categorizing words worksheet, students complete each group of words with a word or phrase from the word bank that has a similar meaning to the other words in the group. There are 10 questions.
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Stone Soup
Sharing and cooperation are difficult skills for kindergartners to grasp. Using the story Stone Soup and a series of activities, kids learn about the benefits of working together, categorizing and comparing items, and eating...
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The Human Body
Every moment, the systems in your body are working together to keep you breathing, standing, and thinking. Elementary schoolers explore the human body and its systems with an impressive, 15-page lesson plan that should leave your...
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Which Word Doesn't Belong?
In this grouping words activity, students explore word meanings. Students are given ten sets of four words and are to determine which word doesn't belong in the group.
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Arrange the Words
For this adjectives worksheet, students categorize adjectives given into 3 categories and read passages that include adjectives. Students complete 5 activities.
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Shizuko’s Daughter: List-Group-Label Strategy
Help your learners navigate the vocabulary of Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori with a lesson on categorizing words. After coming up with a list of things that grow from the earth, learners decide which categories each words belong in.
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Object Sorting
First graders follow directions when sorting objects. They illustrate how objects are categorized by drawing at least two of the categories that they sorted the objects into. Students work in small groups at completing the task of...
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Introduction to Classification
Fourth graders design a classification system to categorize animate and inanimate objects. They discuss the advantages of grouping things as they classify buttons, leaves, shells.
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The Great Pollinators
Young scholars discover the reproductive parts of a plant. In this biology lesson, students identify and categorize several different plants they dissect in class. Young scholars record their information using a data chart.
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Star Words
Students identify and categorize apostrophes. They create maps of the solar system and write simple sentences using apostrophes that describe each planet's characteristics.
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Making a Fossilized Egg
Students explore fossils by participating in an in class experiment. In this archaeology instructional activity, students utilize dough and classroom objects to create fossil imprints after hiding the toy/fossil in the dough egg....
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Worksheet 14. Which Word Doesn't Belong?
In this word group worksheet, students circle the word in each word group that does not belong. There are 10 questions on this worksheet.
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ESOL Transportation and Travel
Students identify required documents related to transportation (driver's license, insurance card, registration, passport). They discuss and categorize the following documents needed for local and or international travel; driver's...
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ESL: Pronunciation of Common Words-Vowel Sounds
In this ESL pronunciation learning exercise, students categorize a set of words according to their vowel sounds. Sounds are given next to words that use them; words given are sorted beneath each, 14 sounds total.
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Painter of the Caves
What a great lesson! Learners read a story called Painters of the Caves by Patricia Lauber which discusses Stone Age wall paintings in Avignon, France. There is a series of discussion questions, comprehension questions, and a graphic...
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A Pill with a View
Young scholars brainstorm a list of potential uses for micro-video technologies. After reading an article, they analyze the development of a new pill-sized camera. In groups, they create a children's book that shows them the various...
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Language Arts: Ode to the Ordinary
Eighth graders select ordinary objects, determine their uses, and write poems about them. Once they select an object, they create a web about its uses to serve as an outline. Once they have written their own odes, 8th graders meet in...
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HOW DOES IT FEEL?
Students explore how it feels to be discriminated against and explain the concepts of it.