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Harriet's Halloween Sort
Students listen to the book, Harriet's Halloween Candy, and discuss the many ways Harriet sorted the candy from her trick-or-treat bag. They sort and classify individually wrapped candy.
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Sorting and Classifying
Students explore organization by participating in an object sorting activity. In this classification lesson plan, students view a diagram which details the different ways to sort items. Students practice sorting random objects in class...
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Fish Eyes Sort
Learners sort, classify and write about what characteristics they used to sort fish counters.
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Classifying Objects
Fourth graders work in small groups to sort and classify a variety of objects. They develop criteria for sorting and explain the characteristics they chose for classification. Groups record and share their classifications.
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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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Gummy Bear Sorting
Students demonstrate knowledge of sorting and classifying by color as they sort gummy bear candies.
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Sorting Objects
Students sort objects by color. For this classification lesson, students identify the color of the objects and categorize them according to color.
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Patterns Here, There and Everywhere
Pattern recognition is a skill often used in mathematics. Learners count and sort manipulatives, organize the data into a graph and answer questions about the information displayed. They collect the objects to be used and create patterns...
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Exploring Polygons and The Greedy Triangle
Excellent instructional activity! Anne Linehane's geometry story, The Greedy Triangle, offers an opportunity to practice forming various types of polygons with your learners. Using elastic bands (or Chinese jump...
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Pattern Power
Young elementary students will discover there are patterns all around them in their daily lives. In groups, they sort pattern blocks by size and color. Using the internet, they create their own type of patterns and share them with the...
Virginia Department of Education
Functions 1
Scholars learn what it means for a relation to be a function and see various representations of functions. After learning the definition, they participate in a card sorting activity classifying relations as functions or not.
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Congruent and Similar Figures
Group that class and get them classifying and sorting figures as congruent or similar. They use magazines to identify and label similar and congruent figures, cutting out images and placing c or s next to each image.
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Sorting
Students sort a variety of manipulatives and use a software program that provides more sorting practice.
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Independent Investigation
Students classify objects. In this math lesson, students sort and classify objects based on their characteristics. Students identify characteristics of objects.
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Aim-- Use a Carroll Diagram to Sort Animals
For this science worksheet, learners cut out pictures of 12 animals and paste them into the correct space on the Carroll diagram. Students classify animals as living in water or land and with or without legs.
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Valentine Candy Count
Here is an imaginative take on a classic lesson! Young scholars discover what color Valentine Candy is found more often than any other in a standard bag of Valentine Conversation Hearts. They observe, predict, sort, and classify the data...
Ohio Department of Education
Describing and Creating Plane Figures - Grade One
Young mathematicians draw, create, and describe different shapes using triangles. They discuss attributes of the original and created shapes. Pupils classify the created shapes and draw and write in mathematics journals to communicate...
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Data Analysis and Probability: Graphing Candy with Excel
Collect and graph data using Microsoft Excel with your math class. They will make predictions about the number of each colored candy in a bag of M&M's, then sort, classify, count, and record the actual data before using Excel to...
National Security Agency
Starting a Restaurant
Through an engaging unit, chefs-in-training will sort and classify data using tally charts. Learners will also create bar graphs to display restaurant data and interpret data from bar graphs using a variety of categories....
PBS
Accessible Shapes
All the 2-D and 3-D measurement work you need is in one location. Divided into three sections, the geometry lesson plans consist of visualization of three dimensions, classifying geometric figures, and finding surface area and volume....
National Park Service
Rock Ranking
Junior geologists sort rocks and soil. They separate a sample of river gravel by size, shape, color, and other characteristics. To include Common Core standards, you could have little ones graph the number of particles in each sample.
Shodor Education Foundation
Sets and the Venn Diagram (Beginner)
Venn diagrams are helpful in understanding the idea of a set and using attributes to sort items. This basic plan is an introduction with an added bonus of an applet that can be used to demonstrate the activity. If a classroom of...
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Super Sort
Students sort objects based on one characteristic. They define the term "attribute" and give examples of attributes of objects. Students explain their reasoning for sorting objects into groups.
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Sorting and Classifying
In this sorting/classifying learning exercise, students sort a set of numbers into 3 groups based on a single characteristic. Worksheet includes link to additional activities.