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Investigating the Food Pyramid

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine how the food pyramid is an important nutritional tool. They classify foods and compare the number of servings per group that are necessary for maintaining good health by placing empty food containers in grocery bags.
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Seashell Discovery: A Lesson in Inductive Classification

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the shells, observing texture, shape, pattern and structure. They should come up with any system of grouping the shells they like, and classify the shells.
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Halloween Candy Sort

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use their Halloween candy to practice sorting and classifying. They compete a Venn diagram comparing their candy wrappers. They develop ways as a class to catorgize the candy in different ways.
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Familiarizing Students with the Five Food Groups

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify an assortment of foods from all of the food groups, then discuss each type of foods' benefits and what happens to the body if it does not get these foods. They classify the foods according to the food groups.
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It's Alive

For Teachers 1st
First graders critically analyze living and nonliving objects, then develop a list of characteristics to classify objects on a science walk. They make a book to close out the lesson.
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Bears Odd Bears Even

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners listen to a read aloud of Harriet Ziefert's Bears Odd Bears Even. They count cubes and counters to classify and show numbers as odd or even.
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Hey! What Is Your Angle?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create and classify straight, right, acute and obtuse angles. In this clever lesson, 5th graders utilize pretzel sticks to form different types of angles. Best of all, they get to eat them at the end!
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Potato Chip Classification

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students classify specimens by observable characteristics. By classifying potato chips, they are introduced to the dichotomous key for identifying plant and animal specimens.
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Classification is Sweet

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students classify, weight and organize items during this lesson. This lesson works great as or with an introduction of the Periodic Table of Elements.
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Everybody Needs a Rock

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students, after making quantitative and qualitative observations of their rocks, construct a Venn diagram or dichotomous key to classify their rocks.
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Preparing for a Job Interview

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils explore the process of preparing for a job interview from the classified search to the actual interview. Lists of potential questions to be asked and answered are prepared and shared with the class.
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Familiarizing Students with the 5 Food Groups

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners review a variety of foods and classify them into food groups. They identify the benefits of each food group to our bodies and consider how deficiencies of these groups affect humans. They sort pictures, view a video and write...
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See Our Collection

For Teachers 1st
First graders classify plants and animals based on their characteristics using examples from the westward journey of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery.
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Can You Identify Arthropods?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders sort and classify the four Arthropod classes. They are given puzzle pieces of one Arthropod example. Each group is to put their puzzle together, glue it on a piece of construction paper and label the ir puzzle.
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Classification and Attributes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students classify objects based on their attributes. They explain how archaeologists use classification to help answer research questions.
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Naturally Speaking

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify the Earth's natural resources and classify them as renewable or non-renewable. They simulate the distribution of resources and discuss the fairness and effectiveness of the distribution. They identify ways that they use...
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Pondering Polygons

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use block letter writing to help classify polygons. They use their own names which helps to keep them engaged during the lesson. Finally, 7th graders play a classification game naming different polygons.
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Mathematical Magazines

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students classify and tabulate the type of advertisements found in a collection of magazines. Determination is made on what percent of the total number of ads each type represents. They present their results orally and in a graph.
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What things let Light Pass Through?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders classify objects according to how well light can pass through them and predict how well objects will transmit light. They experiment with objects to verify predictions while collecting, recording, and interpreting data...
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Diversity And Adaptations Of Organisms

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study how and why animals are classified into eight groups in the animal kingdom. They work together to identify organisms. They use the key to determine the phylum for the included problems.
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Taxonomy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the complexity of organism classifications based on certain criteria.  In this classifying organisms lesson students study taxonomy and gather information and leaves to do their own experiment on classification. 
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Mythology Spreadsheet

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read a large variety of myths and discuss the characters and their attributes found in mythology. Then they identify and learn to set up an appropriate spreadsheet program. Students also enter the data to the class spreadsheet...
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Modern Classification

For Students 9th
In this modern classification worksheet, 9th graders describe ways scientists determine an organism's phylogeny. Then they explain what the animal and fungi kingdoms have in common and how they differ. Students also classify some cells...
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Evolution of Stars

For Students 9th - 12th
In this stars worksheet, students classify stars by comparing their surface temperatures and absolute magnitude. Students fill in 24 blanks in a data table.

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