Utah Education Network
Uen: Keys and Classifying
Sort and classify an assortment of objects relating to classifying Utah plants and animals.
Read Works
Read Works: Creepy Cave Crawlers
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about new insect species found within caves. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: What's Cooking
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how different holidays are celebrated with different types of food. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Earth Rocks
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about three different types of rocks: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Superstars of Science
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about scientists Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking, Dean Kamen, Rachel Carson, and Charles Henry. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Branching Out
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about three branches of government and their system of checks and balances. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: The Sounds Spring Brings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes Students read spring and its sounds and sensory imagery. A question sheet is...
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Stay at Home Educator: Colors and Shapes Sorting Activities for Preschoolers
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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Pre K Pages: Sorting Activities for Preschool
This article contains activities and ideas for teaching sorting skills in preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classrooms. Teach children to sort using various attributes.
Education.com
Education.com: Sorting Objects by Material
[Free Registration/Login Required] This game challenges kids to sort objects by material. Taking their cues from the Three Little Pigs, preschoolers will sort items made of straw into one backpack, sticks into another, and bricks into a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Classifying Polygons
This interactive diagram focuses on sorting polygons by common properties and then you select the correct label for each section of the Venn Diagram.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Classified
At this site from The Franklin Institute you can practice classifying objects according to physical structure and characteristics.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Introduction to Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will be introduced to the process of sorting, classifying, and graphing procedures through an interactive series of three activities.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Histogram Sorting Using Cooperative Learning
Students work with 24 histograms representing distributions with differing shapes and characteristics. By sorting the histograms into piles that seem to go together, and by describing those piles, students develop awareness of the...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Locate and Classify Information [Pdf]
A blank T-Chart is provided for students to use as they sort facts into two categories. Students will classify science information with this aid.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Classify the Trees/leaves
Students go outside to look for trees and gather leaves. Working cooperatively they will sort and try to classify the trees by the characteristics of their leaves.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Earth Materials: Collecting and Classifying
Activity investigates what Earth materials are made of. Students will go out and collect non-living earth materials that will fit in a small plastic bag then sort the material to discover ways of classifying what they have gathered....
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Scotland Kilt Store: Classify by Property
Mr. Wallace owns a store and needs help sorting items in his shop. Help him explore properties of common objects.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Early Chicago Environment and People [Pdf]
"Early Chicago Environment and People" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the early Native Americans who settled in what is now Chicago. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
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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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Animal Sorting
[Free Registration/Login Required] This K-2 flipchart is designed to make animal classification fun! Sort the animals into categories and think like a scientist!
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Teaching With Collections [Pdf]
This lesson 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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Perfect Parade
Help Max and Ruthie set up the band following the mayor's directions. The activity sheet and teacher's guide will help make this into a fun lesson.