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What Is in a Rock?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars identify, sort, and classify mineral samples that make up a common rock.
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Sorting Through Spiders

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students utilize their own drawings of spiders to analyze and sort the attributes that each student drew.
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All Sorts of Seeds!

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare seeds and explore how they are carried through the environment.
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Bodacious Buttons

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in games, graphing, and probability exercises to sort and graph buttons. They sort buttons with Venn diagrams and Bull's Eye graphs.
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We're Alike, We're Different!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students compare a variety of people counters to determine how they're alike and different and then sort, classify and write about how they sort and classify people counters.
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Teddy Bear Picnic

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sit in a circle with their bears from home, each child introduces their bear, then students examine all the bears and think of one way that they can be sorted.
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Sorting Objects

For Students K - 1st
Learners sort six objects into two different groups. They determine which object goes in which circle by writing the names of those objects in each. Use this for review or as a sponge activity.
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Sorting into Three Groups

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders discuss categorizing items into different groups. In this language arts lesson plan, 1st graders read a story, chart three categories from the book and describe examples from the book that fit in each category.
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Sorting: Library Books

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover organization by participating in a class game. In this information sorting activity, students utilize the Internet to play a library role-playing game with their classmates. Students answer study questions about library...
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Organization: Look at What I Organized!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore organization by participating in an object sorting activity. In this indexing lesson plan, students examine their classroom and identify materials that should be organized in order to make the room more efficient....
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore indexing by participating in a library book search. In this sorting lesson, students complete a "flood game" on the Internet and discuss the techniques of locating books in a library. Students locate specific titles in...
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Scalene Triangles

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify and classify scalene, equilateral, and isosceles triangles. In this triangle lesson, 5th graders define the different attributes of 3 types of triangles and sort them by descriptions and...
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Human or Natural?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore nature by participating in a class lab activity. In this human vs. nature lesson plan, students examine a group of items in their classroom and discuss whether they were created naturally or have been altered or created...
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Coral Reef Community Drama: Scene Description

For Teachers K
Students are organized into groups and are assigned puppets according to what sea creature their group represents. In this reef lesson, students identify sea creatures according to their place in the food chain then discuss how these...
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Sorting By One Atrribute

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use different color items to sort by color and different attributes of the manipulatives given to them. In this sorting lesson plan, students also write a journal entry or draw a picture of their activity.
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Sorting Based on Character Traits

For Teachers 1st Standards
Characters from a story can be sorted by their traits, just like shapes or objects can. First the children list several character traits on a chart, they read a familiar story, and then sort the characters by their friendly or unfriendly...
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Sorting in More than One Way

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Sorting, categorizing, and classifying are skills learners must master for many different reasons. The class will work in small groups to list, classify, and sort a stack of familiar books. The neat part about the lesson is that the...
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Birdseed Mining

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore the meaning of mining. In this Science/Math lesson plan, students engage in a small group activity to sort and calculate the value of seeds/beads.  Additionally, they are made aware of environmental damages which...
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore how to sort and manage information.  In this organization lesson students complete an activity on sorting.
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Classifying and Sorting

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English worksheet, students add the suffix "ic". Students form adjectives by adding the suffix to nouns. Students choose the noun or adjective to complete the sentence.
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Recycling Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recycling learning exercise, learners sort recycling items into paper, plastic, or aluminum bins. Students sort 7 items total on this learning exercise.
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Shapes Graphing

For Students K - 1st
In this graphing data activity, students examine the 11 shapes pictured and use that information to finish an incomplete bar graph.
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners study how things are stored and how information is retrieved.  In this investigative lesson plan students play a game that helps them to see how things are sorted in a library. 
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Lucky Charms Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students make a bar graph.  In this sorting and counting lesson, students use the Lucky Charms cereal to sort the marshmallows into separte cups, count how many marshmallows are in each cup and make a bar graph to compare the numbers.