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What Are They Doing?
In this sorting cut and paste worksheet, students cut out 6 pictures of children engaged in household tasks. They paste these pictures in a house shaped puzzle, matching them to the correct verb phrase, ie, "washing the dishes."
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Bodacious Buttons
First graders graph a data set. Given a set of buttons, 1st graders sort them into categories using specific attributes. They graph the number of buttons in their set based on their attributes using a variety of graphs. Students share...
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Classifying Animals
Second graders identify different types of animals on a two charts titled "Mammals" and "Not Mammals." They listen as the book, "They Call Me Wooly," by Keith DuQuette is read to them. Students are asked what is different about the...
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Classifying Living Things
Students identify how to classify living things. They classify various concepts including family members, kinds of clothing, numbers, shapes, and vocabulary words. They discuss how to classify various concepts and classify pictures of...
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Classify That!
Students explore diverse forms of life by using modern biological classification systems to group animals that are related. Students then study basic scientific groupings like genus, species, mammals, fish, birds, amphibians, and...
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Springtime Flower Fun
Students study directional skills and participate in a scavenger hunt to find flowers. They compare, group and classify the flowers by their similarities and differences.
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Classifying and Constructing Corners
Fifth graders, after seeing Honeycomb examples, complete a Classifying Angles worksheet, Clock worksheet, and Defining Angles worksheet.
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Feathered Feeders
Learners investigate variation in bird beaks and the interrelationships of form and function by classifying birds with similar beak shapes, inferring about the possible bird foods based on beak shapes, and locating and identifying...
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Shoeless Math
First graders sort and classify, and complete a T-chart using Students' shoes.
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Cars, Trucks, and Things that Go Sorting Fun!
First graders sort toys by various attributes. They, in groups, sort toy vehicles by color, size etc. and then explain how they chose to group the toys. They write, draw or dictate an explanation of their sorting methods.
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Sorting and Classifying
Students explain why objects area grouped and sequenced in a certain order. In this sorting and classifying lesson plan, students use the website Studyzone.org.
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I Oppose!--Counter-argument/Classifying
Students create an effective classification and counter argument. In this counter-argument lesson, students decide upon a label for at least three types of people and then describe their groups. Students describe three types of people...
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Identify, Sort, Classify
Students improve their identifying, sorting, and classifying skills. In this categorizing activity, students use cubes to practice their sorting, classifying, and identification skills.
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Classify, Classify, Classify...
In this classification worksheet, students read the words from the word box and then categorize and sort them into one of the following categories: fruit, numbers, vegetables.
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Grouping Fish
In this fish worksheet, students group fish according to their similarities. Students explain their reasoning for sorting the fish the way they did. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank questions and 1 short essay.
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Who's There
Fifth graders, in groups, make a list of at least three animals that would survive well in a particular environment. After an allotted time, they pass their list to another group, where they will add to it. They discuss adaptations each...
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Students analyze and graph the waste created in a typical lunch period. They increase awareness of various types of garbage students create during a lunch period. They construct and label a graph of lunch waste. They brainstorm...
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Rock Sorting
First graders observe rocks, record their observations about the rocks and classify them according to their observations. As a class, 1st graders create a list of observable characteristics of rocks. They sort a group of rocks...
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Applemania
First graders read "Ten Apples Up On Top!" and view real apples in a basket. They taste different kinds of apples and describe the tastes: sour, sweet, etc. They graph everyone's favorite apple. They interpret the graph and draw their...
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Sink or Float?
Students predict and explore to discover which objects sink or float in fresh and salt water, predict how salt affect objects, write predictions on T chart, discuss difference between man-made and natural waters, and graph results.
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Delicious Graphing
Fourth graders sort trail mix by type and use that information to create different types of graphs for comparing.
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Science NetLinks: It Counts
Students explore how numbers are assigned to objects, as well as think about more, less, or equal values. They describe, compare, and classify plants.