Read Works
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...
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.
Read Works
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.
Read Works
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Describing Fall Leaves Through Words and Music
Young scholars 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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Order of Real Numbers Grade 8
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to classify, order, and graph real numbers.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: North Sea: Netherlands: What Is It Made Of?
Finn is joining his father on their boat. Join them and help Finn sort materials based on their properties.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns
This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Southwest Mn Fish Families
Describes a lesson where students are introduced to a live fish caught locally. After discussion of its characteristics, and having students draw and label it, they listen to a storybook about fishing, and are introduced to a set of fish...
Quia
Quia: Categories Battleship
In this interactive game, students try to sink the computer's battleships by naming the correct category for the words listed. There are three levels of play provided: Easy, Medium, and Hard.
Quia
Quia: Categories Columns
In this interactive game, students match groups of items on one column with categories on the other.
Quia
Quia: Rags to Riches: Categories Ladder
In this interactive, millionaire-style game, students see groups of three or four items and select the category that fits each group.
Quia
Quia: Rags to Riches: Category Ladder Iii
In this interactive, millionaire-style game, students see groups of three items and select the category that fits each group.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Sweets in a Box
Improve logic and pattern creation skills performing this game. Includes solution.
Other
Science4 Us: Materials
Students use a dichotomous key to sort materials into natural and man-made and sort further using the adjectives rough and smooth; this activity builds both science and language skills as students classify materials and build deeper...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Minnesota Fish Families
Students will be introduced to Minnesota Fish from their local area, then sort, identify, and classify fish using observations.
Other
Math Stories: Finding a Pattern
At this one page site, you can work through step by step a sample problem that illustrates the problem-solving strategy for "identify a pattern." The answer is right there to help you check your thinking.
Stanford University
Dreme: Data in the Preschool Classroom
What are the important concepts involved in data collection and data use in the preschool classroom, and how can teachers support the mathematics of data? This article gives a brief description of the concepts that children need to grasp...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Early Chicago Environment & People [Pdf]
"Early Chicago Environment & People" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the Native Americans who lived in what is now Chicago. It explains how they lived and how Chicago got its name. It is followed by constructed-response...
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...
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...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Olive Trees: Data & Chance
Ariel is taking a survey. Do you want to help her collect and describe data?
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Rocks a Lesson in Inquiry
For this activity, students sort and classify rocks in small groups, and record questions they have. The class will sort the questions into investigatory and non-investigatory questions. They will choose one to investigate, make a...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Animal Classification
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will classify organisms into groups and relate how they determined the groups with how and why scientists use classification. They will also demonstrate how animals are sorted into groups...