Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Sort Objects
Students explore the concept of sorting objects by working through an online tutorial and then attempting a ten question quiz that increases in difficulty as questions are answered correctly.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Grandma's Button Box Sorting
Students will be able to compare objects and sort objects by color.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Floating and Sinking Sorting in Science
Students sort objects according to whether they sink or float.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lord of the Crumbs
Cookie Monster is Gobble in Lord of the Crumbs! Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort objects by color.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cookies of the Caribbean
Go on a pirate adventure with Cookie Monster! Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort objects by color.
Read Works
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...
Read Works
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....
Other
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Fall Sorting Fun
Students color seasonal images and sort them 3 different ways.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Hungry Games
Cookieness Evereat needs your help to win The Hungry Games. Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Kindergarten Unit: Real and Make Believe
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan where students learn the difference between real and make-believe and practice sorting details into the two categories. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Sorting Our Way to P H
For this activity, students first sort a group of objects by their outward appearance. They then dip each object in red cabbage juice, and sort them again by how they reacted to the juice. The purpose of the exercise is to demonstrate...
Read Works
Read Works: Classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Creating Groups and Sorting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan 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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Teaching With Collections [Pdf]
This lesson is great for young learners who like to collect things. It gives you ideas of ways to teach such concepts as classifying, sorting, arranging, multiplying, graphing, and measuring with collections of simple objects.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Classified
At this site from The Franklin Institute you can practice classifying objects according to physical structure and characteristics.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Bursting With Math"
Using "Starburst" jelly beans to sort, graph and add.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Fruit Loop Fun
Using Fruit Loops, students sort by color, count, and enjoy a yummy snack!
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using and Creating a Dichotomous Key
Learners will investigate classification through a sorting activity and discus real-life evidence of classifying objects.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 1.g 3 D Shape Sort
As a whole group, students will sort a collection of three-dimensional objects into categories by shape. There should be several that fall into each of the categories below: Aligns with 1.G.A.1.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Leaf Investigation and Classification
Students will learn about classification of leaves by collecting a variety of leaves from home and working in small groups in the classroom to sort them into groups. Students will present their criteria for grouping the leaves to the class.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Sink or Float? Inquiry Investigation
For this activity, students make predictions about whether different objects float or sink, then test them. They are asked to record their observations and results for each, and compare their results to others'.
University of Regina (Canada)
Univeristy of Regina: Math Central: Patterns Here, There, and Everywhere
This lesson plan on early patterning is well written, well planned, and extensive. The math content is substantial for this age. There are lots of connections to other content areas. Materials needed are readily available or provided for...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Making Patterns
Explore the literature connections, online activity, pencil and paper activity, and the manipulative investigation of patterns and geometric shapes on this page!
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Making Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, K-3 students develop their algebraic sense by using a visual scaffold to sort different types of objects.