Students read Arnold Lobel's story, "Frog and Toad Are Friends". They sort buttons into sets by attributes. They use Venn Diagrams to sort and classify buttons.

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2nd

Students solve logic problems using Venn diagrams containing two or three overlapping categories. They discuss various logic problems as a class, answer questions about data sets, and complete a worksheet. This lesson includes a script to teach along with.

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8th

Students use Venn Diagrams to solve algorithms. Using a computer applet, students classify objects and determine their placement in a Venn Diagram. Students explore the rules and pictoral examples of disjoint sets and intersecting sets.

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6th - 8th

Students, together as a class, construct a Venn diagram of characteristics they see in two classmates. Then, they independently create another Venn diagram comparing/contrasting two characters from the story Charlotte's Web. They share their diagrams with the rest of the class.

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4th - 6th

Students listen to the teacher read two fairy tales and then they compare and contrast the two stories. This material is then organized into a Venn Diagram. Groups of students read additional tales, as specified by the teacher and place the similarities and differences of these stories into a Venn Diagram.

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1st