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- 1st - 3rd
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Students become familiar with the need for categorizing scientific information, in this case, animals. They categorize the 5 groups of animals (mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians). Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students compare and contrast categorical and numerical data, based upon their work in parts 1 and 2; categorical and numerical data. They recognize differences in representing and analyzing categorical and numerical data Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students formulate and refine questions that can be addressed with categorical data. They consider aspects of data collection such as how to word questions and how to record the data they collect. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 12th
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Students organize previously generated research questions into categories. They categorize the questions by topics, and label the topics for each category on sentence strips. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students categorize animals by their coverings. They list descriptive words, explore a science center with actual animal coverings, match pictures of animals with coverings, and categorize pictures of animals by their coverings on a large graph. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate how to write questions about categorical data. They examine different forms of data collection. They determine how to word questions and how to record data for assessment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students compare and contrast categorical and numerical data, based upon their work in previous lessons. They create graphs to analyze data using both categorical and numerical data. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore categorizing and sorting, and write the numbers twenty to twenty-five. They examine pictures and discuss how they are alike and what kinds of groups they can sort them into, and cut the pictures out and group them. Students then write the numbers from twelve through twenty-five on the board using a chart as a reference tool. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students sort and categorize pictures and write the numbers twenty through fifty. They name pictures and discuss the similarities and differences, identify the different groups the pictures could be sorted into, and write sentences explaining how they categorized the pictures. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students explore and examine scientific language and categorization as related to commonly known plants and animals. They hypothesize about a specific plant or animal, how it was scientifically named, what concepts and vocabulary is associated with it and compare/contrast scientific language with creative writing language. Full Review »

