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Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Stay at Home Educator: Colors and Shapes Sorting Activities for Preschoolers

For Teachers Pre-K
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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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 1.g 3 D Shape Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
As a whole group, learners will sort a collection of three-dimensional objects into categories by shape. There should be several that fall into each of the categories below: Aligns with 1.G.A.1.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Guess My Button

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This website gives students an opportunity to sort and classify attributes of a group. The applet responds to each selection made and guides student to the next step.
Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Classifying Quadrilaterals

For Students 4th - 6th
This multimedia that includes a short video [1:19] and other interactive activities on Learn Alberta math resource looks at real-world examples of shape classification in the investigation and solving of crimes. The accompanying...
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Shape Classification

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Grande O Pequeno? Lo Podemos Clasificar Todo!

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Encuentre lo que es similar y lo que es diferente mientras exploran objetos.
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Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to sort items into two and three categories and explain how each group is classified. Finally, students categorize...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's That Coin?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This Five E's AMSTI lesson prompts students to pay close attention to the details on each of the four U.S. coins as they learn the coin names. Students watch a video clip about the differences in the coins, sort real coins by attributes,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fresh Pick Challenge: Logical Lunch

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
By using their deductive reasoning skills, children can help Henry and Avril pack a perfect picnic lunch. This activity will provide them with ways to use clues to solve a problem, group objects based on several attributes, and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Measuring With Mixie Bot

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Children can measure with a favorite character to understand the value of standardized units of measure, such as inches and feet. This activity will help them practice measuring and understand comparing the measurements of one item to...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
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.
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The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: Classified

For Students Pre-K - 1st
At this site from The Franklin Institute you can practice classifying objects according to physical structure and characteristics.
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Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches: Category Ladder Iii

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
In this interactive, millionaire-style game, students see groups of three items and select the category that fits each group.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Leg of Bull Amulet

For Students 9th - 10th
An unusual amulet of the leg of a bull of the sort that was called an "assimilation amulet," which confers on its wearer the attributes of the animal. This amulet provides its possessor with the savage strength, the courage and the...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Clavis

For Students 9th - 10th
A key. The key was used in very early times, and was probably introduced into Greece from Egypt; although Eustathius states, that in early times all fastenings were made by chains, and that keys were comparatively of a much later...

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