Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes
Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking. Pictures and videos of the...
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Adding to Sorted Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into existing categories using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy.
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Creating Groups and Sorting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into student created categories using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Classifying Polygons
This interactive diagram focuses on sorting polygons by common properties and then you select the correct label for each section of the Venn Diagram.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Generating and Recording Data
This "fish" activity will help early elementary students develop skills related to categorizing, recording data, developing vocabulary, and counting. An assessment rubric is attached.