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Curated OER

Food Categories

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this recognizing the food groups instructional activity, students read a breakfast and lunch menu for astronauts and complete a food chart by writing the bold lettered foods in the correct categories. Students write 17 answers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Categories: Which Doesn't Belong?

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this categorizing worksheet, students examine 11 groups of words or pictures. Students then eliminate the word or picture that doesn't belong in each group.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Categories Game: Ten Words

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, in groups, create lists of vocabulary words related to a particular subject. They are given points for each correctly spelled word that matches a list written by the teacher.
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Newseum

News Confusion: What Is News?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Use headlines to help your learners understand what news is. First, present a list of categories to your class. Then instruct small groups to play a game in which they sort headlines into the categories. Discuss the result and examine...
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Super Teacher Worksheets

Find Somebody in This Class Who....

For Students 2nd - 8th
Here is a fun and simple ice breaker in which your young learners will interview their classmates to discover which ones have had similar interests and experiences.
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Curated OER

Friendly Idea Webs

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students examine methods of creating an idea web. In groups, they create a coding system that represent various categories and then design an idea web about one person in the group by listing words that describe the person. Students...
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Curated OER

Real and Make Believe

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Young readers sort pictures into real and make believe categories. In this real and make believe lesson plan, students have a discussion about things that are real and things that are make believe.
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Worksheet
Tean Truth

Leaders Are, Can, and Think

For Students 8th - 12th
A great way to begin a discussion of leadership is to have learners reflect on their own experiences with leadership. A one-page worksheet asks individuals to list what they believe are the top characteristics, qualities, and beliefs of...
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EngageNY

Identifying Theme: Connecting Passages from Esperanza Rising to Human Rights

For Teachers 5th Standards
Even fictional characters have rights. Scholars read selected passages from Pam Muñoz Ryan's Esperanza Rising and consider which of the five categories from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the text relates to. They glue each...
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21 x 20 Media

A+ Writing Prompts

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Shake it up! Shake your tablet to bring up a unique writing prompt for journaling or blogging with your class. Shake again and a new one appears. Prompts can come from different categories (sketches, scenes, texts, words, news) to help...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Core Analysis Frame: Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Dig deep into any piece of poetry with a set of analysis questions. Ponder the content, form, and language of poetry and provide some question for critique. The first two pages include general questions, and the remainder of the document...
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Theodore Roosevelt Association

Theodore Roosevelt: A Presidential Timeline

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Throughout his life and presidency, Theodore Roosevelt contributed to the America we know today in so many ways. An adaptable instructional activity prompts young historians to create a chronological timeline of Roosevelt's contributions...
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Website
Eat Right Ontario

Handy Guide to Serving Sizes

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Always know the right amount to eat with help from an engaging and informative website. Browse food categories— vegetables and fruits, grains, dairy, meat, fats, sweet and salty treats, and beverages—to discover how to measure a proper...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Category Directions

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this following directions worksheet, students pay attention to instructions as they respond to 4 questions by categorically following directions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Classifying into Categories

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this classification worksheet, students organize their thoughts by classifying the words from the box into the following categories: birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish.
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Simply Worksheets

Food Chain Categories

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this food chains worksheet, students fill out the food chains listed with the correct consumer and producers. Students fill out 4 food chains total.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Analyzing Interaction: Categories of Water Management in The Big Thirst

For Teachers 7th Standards
It's puzzle time! Pupils participate in a jigsaw activity to discuss the various uses of water, including personal, agricultural, and industrial uses. They also conduct a close reading of The Big Thirst by Charles Fishman and answer...
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K20 LEARN

Speak Up! Four Categories Of Speeches

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers examine the four major types of speeches: informative, demonstrative, persuasive, and extemporaneous. Groups then select one type and craft and share a presentation highlighting this format's characteristics. Finally,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fish Sorting

For Students 7th - 9th
In this classification activity, learners are given nine pictures of different types of fish. They cut them out and use a key to classify each into a category based on their characteristics.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Categories

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Language Arts worksheet, students determine a word from each of five categories that begin with the letters D, L, A, and C. The categories include types of pets and zoo animals.
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Interactive
Curated OER

ESL: Categories

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL worksheet, students read names of items, then select whether the item category is food, clothes, parts of the body or "the office." 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Classification: Which Category?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this classifying words worksheet, learners read groups of three words and choose their categories. Students write twelve multiple choice answers.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Categories

For Teachers K
Students sort animal picture cards into classification groups such as mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and fish. They discuss the characteristics that each group of animals shares then arrange the pictures into a clasificatioon...
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Foreign Policy Research Institute

Categories of Cold War Histiography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
While the objective is to provide an overview of the Cold War in preparation for further study, this resource addresses the topic at a rather advanced level, and might need its own introductory lesson. The handouts include terms such as...

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