Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Clouds as Art: Torn Paper Landscape

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a torn paper landscape and use it to study clouds. In this cloud study and art lesson, students make a background art image from torn paper. Students create a torn paper landscape and use cotton balls to illustrate...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works:classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Sorting to Predetermined Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan 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...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Creating Groups and Sorting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy in which young scholars learn to sort items into categories they create for themselves. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent...
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Picture Graphs (Pictographs) Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Picture graphs are a fun way to display data. This article reviews how to create and read picture graphs (also called pictographs).
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[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...
Activity
Can Teach

Can Teach: Themed Book Lists

For Students K - 1st
This site has lists of books for teachers and students categorized by theme. Includes alphabet books, sports and folk tales.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Birds' Bills

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will compare and contrast different kinds of birds' bills and categorize pictures. After drawing the bills in each category, they will then compare the bill types with common household items.
Activity
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Drag and Drop Activity: Goods and Services

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Categorize pictures as either goods or services by clicking and dragging them to the appropriate column.
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Learning About Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this whiteboard activity by SMART, children become familiar with the Food Pyramid. They categorize foods by brainstorming and using pictures. Children learn about various factors that affect individual food choices, and they apply...
Professional Doc
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Measurement: An Elementary Resource List

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
University of Regina senior education mathematics students compiled this this in-depth resource list for elementary and middle school grades. The resources are categorized according to: supporting program materials, print resources,...
Website
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: All About Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the great attractions of this site is the ability to listen to the birds. Each bird is categorized with a picture, description, its cry, conservation status and "Cool Facts." There are tips for attracting birds as well as...
Lesson Plan
Other

National Center on Intensive Intervention: Identify and Sort Common Objects

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This individual or small group activity helps teach the common core standard of sorting common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. Materials and detailed instructions are included.
Website
Other

Moscow University: Dmitriy Mendeleev Online

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Moscow University contains links to other Mendeleev sites. Links are categorized by the following topic areas: Overviews, Writings, Pictures, Periodic Laws, Periodic Tables, and Russian resources.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Critical thinking, comprehension and analysis skills are the focus of this physical activity. Good beginning to teaching different ways of looking at things.
Graphic
Curated OER

The Six Flags of Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
A difficult site to categorize but a useful one to educators, parents, and students. In addtion to serving as a doorway to a variety of business enterprises in the Lone Star State, it offers a numerous, useful educational sites:...
Graphic
Curated OER

Language Guide: Los Ninos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.
Graphic
Curated OER

Language Guide: Los Ninos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.
Graphic
Curated OER

Language Guide: Los Ninos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.
Graphic
Curated OER

Language Guide: Los Ninos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.
Graphic
Curated OER

Language Guide: Los Ninos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.
Graphic
Curated OER

Language Guide: Los Ninos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.
Graphic
Curated OER

Language Guide: Los Ninos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.
Graphic
Curated OER

Language Guide: Los Ninos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.
Graphic
Curated OER

Language Guide: Los Ninos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.