National Geographic
National Geographic: Sorting the Gulf Ecosystem
In this activity, students sort images of organisms into categories such as birds, reptiles, plants, invertebrates, etc. Next they examine the provided poster of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and categorize organisms they identify. A...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Sort
A lesson plan in which learners work with a partner to sort words according to category and then label each category. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Persuade, Inform, Entertain Sort
A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to the author's purpose: to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. Materials are included. [PDF]
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Histogram Sorting Using Cooperative Learning
Students work with 24 histograms representing distributions with differing shapes and characteristics. By sorting the histograms into piles that seem to go together, and by describing those piles, students develop awareness of the...
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: The Battle of Yorktown Sort It Sets
For this lesson, students examine why the Battle of Yorktown was a turning point in the Revolutionary War using primary sources.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Computer Lab Favorites
Over fifty online learning activities are presented here. An appealing interactive wheel allows students to choose subject area to sort the links. The activities are easily completed in 15 to 30 minute computer lab periods.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension
Critical thinking, comprehension and analysis skills are the focus of this physical activity. Good beginning to teaching different ways of looking at things.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The First Day of Kindergarten Scary and Strange? More or Less!
Students will be able to sort pictures that are alike.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Using a Before Reading Organizer With Informational Text
This module provides strategies to use with informational text. Teachers will explicitly teach students about graphic organizers to use before reading informtational texts.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Comparing Temperatures
Second graders should be able to recognize what makes one number greater or smaller than another, using place value understanding which is crucial to Common Core mastery. This lesson combines math and science by having students order...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Ordering Numbers
Given a set of numbers, young scholars need to decide where to place another set of numbers so they are ordered from least to greatest. This is a good precursor to greater than/less than. A detailed example is included.
Other
Sorico: Describing and Comparing Measurable Attributes
The following unit can be used to teach measurable attributes. Students will describe and compare two objects with a measurable concept in common using direct comparison. Included are necessary vocabulary, a scavenger hunt, and links to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Jelly Beans Add Up
The instructional activity will explore counting, sorting, and graphing skills. The instructional activity provides students an exciting and fun way of exploring and internalizing graphing, sorting, and counting skills. Realistically,...
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Number and Operations in Base Ten 5.nbt.7 Worksheets
Teachers can assess students' knowledge of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals to hundredths with these printable worksheets. You can even create your own worksheet or flashcards.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Number and Operations in Base Ten 5.nbt.2 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of the place value system.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Expressions & Equations 8.ee.3 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets to assess students' understanding of radicals and integer exponents.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Functions 8.f.3 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets to assess students' understanding of linear functions.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: The Number System 7.ns.1b Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers using a number line.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Functions 8.f.2 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of the rate of change and identifying Y intercept.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Expressions & Equations 8.ee.4 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets to assess students' understanding of scientific notation.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Geometry 7.g.2 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of creating triangles and identifying triangle angles and lengths.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Expressions & Equations 7.ee.3 Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of percents and decimals.
Other
Science4 Us: Materials
Students use a dichotomous key to sort materials into natural and man-made and sort further using the adjectives rough and smooth; this activity builds both science and language skills as students classify materials and build deeper...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Transferring Heat by Convection in a Tank
In this engineering science fair project, students will determine the most effective method for quickly raising the temperature of a liquid in a tank. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...