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All in the (Insect) Family
Students participate in a series of activities in order to explore the diversity of insects. They explore how insects are grouped and categorized.
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Know your Food!
Students explore the concept of healthy and unhealthy foods. In this nutrition lesson, students play a team game in which food cards are scattered between the 2 teams. A member from each team performs a specified locomotor movement,...
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Look at Those Leaves!
Learners observe and sort tree leaves. In this plant biology lesson, students observe various types of leaves and identify the characteristics of each leaf. Learners measure and sort leaves according to size and color.
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Mystery Graphs
Students study graphs and learn how to display information into a graph. In this graph lesson plan, students construct a graph of their own sorted data, and pick out things in graphs that are inconsistent.
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Spelling Patterns: Or , Oor, and Ore Words
Fourth graders complete word work with words that contain the /or/, /oor/, or /ore/ spelling pattern. In this spelling pattern lesson, 4th graders participate in the weekly spelling list activity in which they sort words with the given...
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Independent Investigation
Students classify objects. In this math instructional activity, students sort and classify objects based on their characteristics. Students identify characteristics of objects.
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Even or Not Even?
For this numbers worksheet, learners analyze 12 different numbers, all of which are multiples of the number 5. They determine which numbers are even and which are odd. Students write the even numbers in the Even column and the odd...
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Ordinal Numbers
In this mathematical ordinal numbers worksheet, students follow ten directives to show mastery of sorting out ordinal number problems on grids.
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Bivalve or Univalve (Clam or Snail)?
Fourth graders explore the meaning of the prefixes "bi" and "uni." In groups, 4th graders observe pictures of shells and handle real shells. Students create a chart to classify each shell as a bivalve or univalve. They identify the...
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Pilots
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and have 'p' snacks all to learn about pilots. Students also pretend to fly and draw what they would see if they were flying up in the air.
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Details, Details
Young scholars explore statistics by participating in a personal details activity. In this data collection instructional activity, students identify the importance of personal information collection and how it can be used against them if...
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Taste the Rainbow
Students practice estimating and graphing by utilizing Skittles. In this statistics lesson plan, students complete worksheets based on the likelihood of a certain color of skittle coming out of the bag. Students create a...
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Food or Not Food?
In this food worksheet, students analyze 12 drawings of different objects, some of which are food and some are not. Each object has a number next to it. Students put the number in the Food column if the object is food. They put the...
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Categorizing Items
In this categorization worksheet, students cut out 6 pictures and classify them as food or clothing by pasting them in the appropriate boxes.
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There Was An Old Lady...
First graders read "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" and use Kid Pix to identify characters from the story. In this character identification lesson plan, 1st graders first hear several versions of the classic tale, and then...
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Look At Those Leaves
Students observe leaves. In this plant biology lesson, students examine leaves and classify them according to size, shape, and color. Students learn more about the leaves by visiting suggested websites.
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The Great Button Sort
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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Primary Activity: Transport Sort
For this transportation worksheet, students cut out the pictures and place them in the correct category based on wheels, school transportation, energy, and energy. Students then make up their own category.
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Sorting
Students examine how sorting is the process of putting things into an orderly sequence based on some key value. In this activity students create a spreadsheet with 26 rows of data, then sort those rows by different values.
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Button Sort - Cross Reference #607, Literature (Elementary, Mathematics)
Students write free flowing thoughts and feelings in their journals. They practice observation skills. They write using adjectives to describe an object. They choose a special button from among many unusual buttons.
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Sorting the Loyalist Documents
Students organize the Canadian Loyalist primary source documents and add more information to their primary source document concept maps.
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Sorting Rocks
Students develop a rock word web during a large group discussion. Using the categories generated during that discussion, they sort their rock samples accordingly.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Sorting
Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this tier two vocabulary lesson, students read the book Sorting and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define selected vocabulary terms and...
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Rock Sorting Activity
Students organize rock samples according to their properties. In this earth science lesson, students predict whether they are igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary. They compare their prediction with the actual type.