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Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups
[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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Read Works:classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Sorting to Predetermined Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Stay at Home Educator: Colors and Shapes Sorting Activities for Preschoolers
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Matching Game
Observe different shapes and colors of leaves, and match the leaves in this online interactive game. Discern the differences between members of the same family of objects.
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Kinderweb: Educational Children's Games
Use this site to practice identifying shapes, colors, and animals with these interactive games.
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Read Works: Classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Creating Groups and Sorting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into categories they create for themselves. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
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Number Nut: Shapes, Symbols, and Colors: Identifying Traits
Explains how traits are used in Math and in Science to sort and compare the properties of objects and substances.
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Ab Cya: Same and Different
The Same and Different Donut Game is a pre-school activity to practice identifying objects that are the alike and not alike. Kids compare donuts based on shape, color and combinations of shape and color. After all rounds have been...
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Number Nut: Shapes, Symbols, and Colors: Grouping
Find out how grouping is used in addition, multiplication and division. Then practice set recognition playing the two interactive games.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Going on a Leaf Hunt!
Students go outside take a closer look at leaves on a tree. The students collect leaves of different shapes or colors, and then sort into categories, and compare and contrast them to leaves that are non-native to Minnesota.