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.
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...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Wild Places: Identifying Species
Sort and classify insects and spiders by characteristics, using stamps from the United States postal stamp Classic Collection. Create a taxonomic key to distinguish between any four animals.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Two Sounds of G
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is correlated to Houghton Mifflin Grade 2 reading series. It reviews words with soft and hard g sounds, and includes a song, sound clips, interactive sorting, and classifying, spelling...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fact or Opinion
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will be introduced to the difference between facts and opinions. They will practice determining which statements are facts and which are opinions. Activities include sorting and classifying...
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: The Tooth
Read this spooky rhyme and then use the activity page to create patterns with Halloween candy. The teacher's guide and extra challenges will help teachers make fun and interesting lesson plans.
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...
Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington: Is It a Rock or Mineral? [Pdf]
In this lesson, young scholars will compare types of candy to learn about geological classification. Students will classify and sort different materials by their composition and physical properties.
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...