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Algebra: What's My Rule?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students apply higher level thinking skills to determine rules for sorting and classification. In this pre-algebra lesson plan, students nominate classmates who they think satisfy the unspoken "rule" established by the leader. As...
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Look At Those Leaves!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students sort tree leaves. For this plant biology lesson, students collect leaves and group them according to size, shape, and color. Students discuss their observations.
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Cereal Box Blocks and More!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sort and categorize different types of boxes and cartons. In this sorting lesson, students designate areas of the room to put different sizes, styles, or colors of boxes. They help their teacher count and graph the different...
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Valentine's Day Math

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore sorting and classifying. In this math lesson, 1st graders sort conversation hearts based on color. Students graph their results and enjoy the candy!
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Early Childhood Nutrition

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students complete activities that focus on food and nutrition. In this food lesson plan, students sort foods into healthy and not healthy, categorize them into ground and tree sorts, draw their favorite foods, make abc books of food, and...
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Summer Machines Activity: Cool Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine and think about various tools in their surrounding environment to facilitate development of their primary observation and sorting skills. In this tool observation lesson, students first sort a variety of tools any way...
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Sharing with Others (Private/Religious)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students appreciate uniqueness and differences by comparing and contrasting fruit. In this differences instructional activity, students study fruits and analyze for similarities and differences. Students sort the fruit into five...
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Dunk It! Don't Junk It!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the concept of sorting recyclables. In this recycling lesson, 3rd graders determine how to separate recyclables from waste and how to sort recyclables into different categories.
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Know your Food!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the concept of healthy and unhealthy foods. In this nutrition lesson plan, students play a team game in which food cards are scattered between the 2 teams. A member from each team performs a specified locomotor movement,...
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Spelling Patterns: Or , Oor, and Ore Words

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete word work with words that contain the /or/, /oor/, or /ore/ spelling pattern. In this spelling pattern lesson, 4th graders participate in the weekly spelling list activity in which they sort words with the given...
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Independent Investigation

For Teachers Pre-K - K
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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Ordinal Numbers

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this mathematical ordinal numbers worksheet, students follow ten directives to show mastery of sorting out ordinal number problems on grids.
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Mystery Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study graphs and learn how to display information into a graph. In this graph lesson plan, students construct a graph of their own sorted data, and pick out things in graphs that are inconsistent.
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Fish Sorting

For Students 7th - 9th
In this classification worksheet, students 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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Homophone Words and Pictures for Sorts

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this homophone worksheet, students observe pictures and word cards, cut them apart, and match the homophone with the correct picture. Students match seventy pictures and word cards.
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Agriculture Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice counting. In this early numbers lesson, students learn about the beginnings of agriculture and how it ties into math. Students practice counting objects related to agriculture.
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Gel Electrophoresis: Sort and See the DNA

For Students 7th - 12th
In this DNA instructional activity, learners access a website to learn how DNA fragments are separated through the process of gel electrophoresis. Then students model the construction of DNA fingerprints and practice interpreting...
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Gel Electrophoresis: Sort and See the DNA

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students construct DNA fingerprints. In this genetics lesson plan, students watch an on-line gel electrophoresis animation, then they work in groups to use a restriction map to create a restriction enzyme and use that to arrange a DNA...
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The Great Button Sort

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners practice figuring out how items have been sorted. They also sort buttons in small cooperative groups. They color and sort their own paper buttons and then give their button sort to another student to see if he or she can figure...
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Sorting

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how sorting is the process of putting things into an orderly sequence based on some key value. In this activity students create a spreadsheet with 26 rows of data, then sort those rows by different values.
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Sorting Rocks

For Teachers K
Students develop a rock word web during a large group discussion. Using the categories generated during that discussion, they sort their rock samples accordingly.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Sorting

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this tier two vocabulary lesson, students read the book Sorting and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define selected vocabulary terms and...
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Sort It Out

For Teachers K - 5th
Students study classification systems by sorting Legos and determining how the different pieces are classified. They list as many attributes as possible to use for sorting.
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Heave, Ho the Cargo!

For Teachers K
Students identify, sort and graph samples of goods from the Great Lakes. In this science and math instructional activity, students describe a "good" and sort them into living and non-living categories. Students graph the results.

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