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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observing,comparing and Classifying Rocks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An activity where students in teams observe and classify different types of rocks.
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

Univeristy of Regina: Math Central: Patterns Here, There, and Everywhere

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan on early patterning is well written, well planned, and extensive. The math content is substantial for this age. There are lots of connections to other content areas. Materials needed are readily available or provided for...
Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Guess My Button

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This website gives students an opportunity to sort and classify attributes of a group. The applet responds to each selection made and guides student to the next step.
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 instructional activity 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...
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Adventures With Adverbs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Students will identify, sort, and classify adverbs as well as compare and contrast adjectives and adverbs in this whiteboard lesson provided by SMART.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Earth Materials: Collecting and Classifying

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Activity investigates what Earth materials are made of. Students will go out and collect non-living earth materials that will fit in a small plastic bag then sort the material to discover ways of classifying what they have gathered....
Article
Other

Stay at Home Educator: Colors and Shapes Sorting Activities for Preschoolers

For Teachers Pre-K
Sorting activities are the perfect way to help children learn to classify their world from the start. This article explains why this skill is so important in the "real world" and contains a list of sorting activities for preschoolers.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Sorting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students learn about data sorting, and by what criteria can one sort things by different algorithms such as selection, insertion and bubble sort.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Perfect Parade

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help Max and Ruthie set up the band following the mayor's directions. The activity sheet and teacher's guide will help make this into a fun lesson.
Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Classifying Quadrilaterals

For Students 4th - 6th
This multimedia that includes a short video [1:19] and other interactive activities on Learn Alberta math resource looks at real-world examples of shape classification in the investigation and solving of crimes. The accompanying...
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 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 included....
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Classify the Trees/leaves

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars go outside to look for trees and gather leaves. Working cooperatively they will sort and try to classify the trees by the characteristics of their leaves.
Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.
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SRI International

Performance Assessment Links in Science: Classifying Rocks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a performance task where students sort and classify rocks based on their properties, then demonstrate how they can transfer their understanding to decide on ways they might sort and classify other types of objects.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Genre Kindergarten Unit: Real and Make Believe

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan where students learn the difference between real and make-believe and practice sorting details into the two categories. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Shape Classification

For Students 6th - 8th
Investigate the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons using this interactive Learn Alberta math resource. Students are able to practice classifying shapes based on their different properties. Be sure to follow the...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using and Creating a Dichotomous Key

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will investigate classification through a sorting activity and discus real-life evidence of classifying objects.
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 students learn to sort items into categories they create for themselves. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to sort items into two and three categories and explain how each group is classified. Finally, students categorize...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Describing Fall Leaves Through Words and Music

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars collect, describe, and sort leaves found outside. As a cross-curricular component, they will improvise on musical instruments in a way that they feel describes a dominant leaf characteristic.
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Early Chicago Environment and People [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
"Early Chicago Environment and People" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the early Native Americans who settled in what is now Chicago. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Sorting

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This K-2 flipchart is designed to make animal classification fun! Sort the animals into categories and think like a scientist!
Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Teaching With Collections [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This activity is great for young learners who like to collect things. It gives you ideas of ways to teach such concepts as classifying, sorting, arranging, multiplying, graphing, and measuring with collections of simple objects.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Measuring With Mixie Bot

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Children can measure with a favorite character to understand the value of standardized units of measure, such as inches and feet. This activity will help them practice measuring and understand comparing the measurements of one item to...

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