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EngageNY

Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Inferring About the Silversmith Trade in Colonial Times

For Teachers 4th Standards
The seventh lesson plan in this unit on colonial trade assesses fourth graders' ability to use details from an informational text to make inferences and create a piece of informative writing. The included assessment begins with learners...
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Curated OER

Pattern Power

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young elementary students will discover there are patterns all around them in their daily lives. In groups, they sort pattern blocks by size and color. Using the internet, they create their own type of patterns and share them with the...
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Curated OER

2-D and 3-D Presents at Pedro's Party

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders draw 2-D and 3-D shapes. They sketch and label geometric figures with correct terminology, then explore parallel and perpendicular lines. Pupils sort and classify shapes drawn.
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Alabama Wildlife Federation

Fill the Bill

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A hummingbird isn't the only bird with a unique beak. After a discussion about the specific characteristics of bird beaks, pupils complete a station rotation and use different tools to simulate the function of different beaks. They...
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Curated OER

Mythology Spreadsheet

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read a large variety of myths and discuss the characters and their attributes found in mythology. Then they identify and learn to set up an appropriate spreadsheet program. Students also enter the data to the class spreadsheet...
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Ohio Department of Education

Describing and Creating Plane Figures - Grade One

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young mathematicians draw, create, and describe different shapes using triangles. They discuss attributes of the original and created shapes. Pupils classify the created shapes and draw and write in mathematics journals to communicate...
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Curated OER

Science: Teddy Bear Nation

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars sort teddy bears according to types and then graph the results. They each bring a bear to class and then discuss their similarities and differences. Once the bears have been sorted into groups according to size and color,...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Sets and the Venn Diagram (Beginner)

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Venn diagrams are helpful in understanding the idea of a set and using attributes to sort items. This basic plan is an introduction with an added bonus of an applet that can be used to demonstrate the activity. If a classroom of...
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Kingdom Animalia: Classifying Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Six lessons, extension activities, and an assessment make up a series of lessons curated to reinforce the concept of classifying animals. Each informative and interactive lesson attributes to the knowledge of the seven levels of...
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EngageNY

Evaluating Reports Based on Data from a Sample

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Statistics can be manipulated to say what you want them to say. Teach your classes to be wise consumers and sort through the bias in those reports. Young statisticians study different statistical reports and analyze them for misleading...
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EngageNY

Interpreting the Graph of a Function

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Groups sort through NASA data provided in a graphic to create a graph using uniform units and intervals. Individuals then make connections to the increasing, decreasing, and constant intervals of the graph and relate these connections...
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EngageNY

Posing Statistical Questions

For Teachers 6th Standards
Is this a statistical question? The opening lesson plan in a series of 22 introduces the concept of statistical questions. Class members discuss different questions and determine whether they are statistical or not, then they sort the...
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EngageNY

Using Multiple Resources of Information: Creating a Cascading Consequences Chart about DDT and Practicing a Fishbowl Discussion

For Teachers 6th Standards
For every action there is a consequence. Scholars continue their work on creating a cascading consequence chart about DDT using Welcome Back, The Exterminator, Rachel Carson: Sounding the Alarm on Pollution along with graphic organizers...
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EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge: Competing Views Regarding Mining on Inuit Lands

For Teachers 5th Standards
Scholars build background knowledge about mining on Inuit lands. Working in small groups, they sort information about the Inuit onto a point of view chart to determine if mining is beneficial to Inuit communities. 
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Curated OER

Venn Diagram with Blocks

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders classify blocks according to their attributes. In this math lesson, 5th graders will identify attributes of blocks, sort them, then form the groups into a Venn Diagram, and write ratios using the attributes.
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Curated OER

Math and Literature

For Teachers K
Students listen to the reading of "The Button Box" and use buttons provided to tell a story about a chosen button, compare their own buttons to those in the reading. They estimate how many buttons are in a bag and sort buttons based on...
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Curated OER

Guess My Shape

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils describe shapes to other students who have to guess that shape. In this shape lesson plan, pupils describe shape attributes to other students. Then those other pupils have to guess the shape that is being described to them....
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Curated OER

Big Bones, Little Bones

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students investigate archeology. In this archeology lesson, students research the process of excavation. Students participate in a mock-excavation and sort objects by physical properties.
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Curated OER

Independent Investigation

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars classify objects. In this math activity, students sort and classify objects based on their characteristics. Young scholars identify characteristics of objects.
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Curated OER

The Great Button Sort

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice figuring out how items have been sorted. They also sort buttons in small cooperative groups. They color and sort their own paper buttons and then give their button sort to another student to see if he or she can figure...
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Curated OER

Sort It Out and Match It Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars identify objects that are the same shape and size. They compare and contrast attributes of two-and three-dimensional objects using appropriate vocabulary. Pupils justify an extension of a geometric pattern to explain...
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Curated OER

Sort It Out

For Teachers K - 5th
Students study classification systems by sorting Legos and determining how the different pieces are classified. They list as many attributes as possible to use for sorting.
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Curated OER

Look at Those Leaves!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners observe leaves. In this math and science cross-curriculum leaf lesson plan, students take a nature walk and collect leaves. Attributes are assigned and leaves are sorted in various ways. Learners use non-standard or standard...
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Curated OER

Look at Those Leaves!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students observe, measure and sort different leaves.  In this investigative instructional activity students study the attributes of leaves and become familiar with the seasonal changes of leaves. 

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