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Institute for Humane Education

Selling "Boy" and "Girl"

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th Standards
Monster trucks, action figures, and video games. Are these toys designed for boys or girls? Scholars work in small groups to find and categorize examples of boy and girl toys from catalogs. Next, learners analyze the two sets of pictures...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics, Letter-Sound Correspondence: Letter Bag

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An activity focuses on final sounds sorting. Scholars pull objects out of a bag, identify what letter sound the object ends with, then draw the picture under the appropriate column.
Learning
Generation Rx

Medication Safety Patrol: Is It Candy or Medicine? Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Scholars play a sorting game designed to encourage safe medication handling. They browse pictures of candy and medication, then decide which of the two they're looking at by raising a card labeled candy or medicine.
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Curated OER

Animal Coverings

For Teachers K
Students categorize animals by their coverings. They list descriptive words, explore a science center with actual animal coverings, match pictures of animals with coverings, and categorize pictures of animals by their coverings on a...
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Curated OER

Full and Empty

For Students K - 2nd
In this full and empty worksheet, students categorize pictures into items that are full and items that are empty. Students categorize 9 items.
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McGraw Hill

Phonics Teachers Resource Book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the...
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Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Leaving Home Forever: What Would You Put In Your Suitcase?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Scholars put themselves in an immigrant's shoes to decide what items they would take on their journey to a new home. Learners read primary sources, take part in a whole-class discussion, and make a list that they share with their peers,...
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Curated OER

Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sort objects by shape, size and color. In this math and literacy sorting lesson, students listen to the book Freddy the Fish and the Squash that Goes Squish by Duke Christoffersen. Students work in small groups to sort vegetable...
Organizer
Curated OER

Floating and Sinking

For Students K - 2nd
In this early physics worksheet, students cut out pictures of 16 everyday objects. Students determine whether each of the objects will float or sink and then paste the pictures in the appropriate boxes.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Down By the Bay

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood categorizing worksheet, students examine 4 sets of pictures. Each set has 3 items pictured, and students choose the 1 picture in each of the sets that doesn't belong.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Where Are All the Plants? Where Are All the Animals?

For Students K - 1st
In this categorizing worksheet, students examine 8 pictures. Students cut out and paste the plants in the box. Then on the next page, students choose the animal pictures and paste them in the box. There will be half of the pictures not...
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Curated OER

Materials and Substances

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students categorize and sort cards by the materials and substances of their chemistry. In this materials and substances lesson, students cut out and create cards for each picture. Students categorize and sort the cards based on their...
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Curated OER

Oddball Out

For Teachers 5th - 6th
For this science worksheet, students examine 4 pictures in a row and circle the invertebrate that is different from the others. There are 4 rows of pictures. Answers are provided upside down on the page.
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Curated OER

Oddball Out: Seashore Creatures

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this science worksheet, students analyze 4 pictures of seashore creatures in a row. Students circle the animal which is different from the others. There are 4 rows of pictures. Answers are provided upside down at the bottom of the page.
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Curated OER

Sorting and Using Materials: Words That Describe Objects

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this describing objects worksheet, students color 6 pictures of common objects. Students read the 16 describing words in a word bank and write the words that fit each picture in the box underneath each one.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Objects That Use Electricity

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing items that use electricity instructional activity, 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...
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Curated OER

Talkin' Trash (All About Landfills)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the types of waste created by people and identify various options for trash disposal. They read and discuss a handout about what a landfill is and the different types of trash, match types of trash with the proper...
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Curated OER

Silly Sentences- Sorting Words

For Students 3rd
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.
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Curated OER

Earth Rocks!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Curated OER

Amazing Birds!

For Students 4th - 7th
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.
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Curated OER

Sorting Into Two Groups

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Here is a way for your charges to sort pictures of children into 2 groups and put a title for each group. In this classification lesson plan, learners explain why they chose to separate the children the way they did.
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Curated OER

Which Word Doesn't Belong?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this which word doesn't belong learning exercise students read groups of words. In this multiple choice learning exercise, students find ten answers.
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Curated OER

Let the Phone Get Them Talking! Using the Yellow Pages as a Teaching Resource

For Teachers 5th - 9th
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...
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Curated OER

Why Plants Are Important to Us

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore plant life. In this plant instructional activity, 1st graders examine various plant life and categorize them. Students graph their data and make journal entries regarding their work.