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Valentine Heart Candy
Each student gets a box of candy Valentine hearts. The students open the box and count how many of each colored heart they have in their box. The students use this information to make a bar graph and answer follow-up questions.
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Sampling Rocks
Students collect and sort rocks based on visible characteristics. For this statistics lesson, students determine adequate sample size and categorize rocks based on characteristics. The book Everybody Needs a Rock is read to...
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Ready for Roots
Fourth graders sort seeds and predict what conditions are needed for them to germinate. They keep the seeds moist, observe and measure their growth and graph the results. As the seeds start to grow students compare and contrast the each...
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Learning to Teach: Dos and Don’ts
Walking the tightrope of etiquette involved with student teaching…in front of thirty kids.
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Sort by Own Rule
In this sorting activity, students examine pictures of clothing items such as a jacket, sneakers, pants and shorts. They decide on a sorting rule before coloring the item blue that go in one group and coloring the other items green. They...
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Sorting
In this sorting activity, students analyze 40 items in a box and sort them into 4 categories: numerals, symbols, upper case letters and lower case letters.
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Sort Shapes
In this sorting shapes worksheet, students learn to recognize shapes within word problems and then sort them according to their characteristics. Students solve six word problems.
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Sorting
Students explore how to sort and manage information. In this organization lesson plan students complete an activity on sorting.
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Sorting into Three Groups
First graders discuss categorizing items into different groups. In this language arts lesson, 1st graders read a story, chart three categories from the book and describe examples from the book that fit in each category.
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Hardware Sort
Students classify various hardware items using the attributes of the objects. In this classification lesson, students group objects based on their attributes and explain their classification key.
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States Database Searching and Sorting
Fifth graders search and sort prepared databases for information to use in classroom projects, locate, gather, evaluate, organize, and analyze information.
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Local Animal Sort
Students examine the concepts of sorting and classifying animal. They use familiar animals to determine the connections between physical characteristics and categorization.
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Word Sort: words ending in r
Young readers cut out words and sort them into four different categories ending in "r.". Students sort 44 words into -ir, -er, -ur, and -ear. I like the hands-on component of this activity.
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Dictionary Word Sort
In this dictionary word sort worksheet, students play a game identifying where words in the dictionary would be. Students use different cards and identify where a certain word would be on the page.
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Which Room in the House?
In this categorizing worksheet, students examine 21 words and then identify them as items that belong in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, or living room.
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Hardware Sort
Learners work in groups to sort and classify a variety of hardware materials commonly found in the store. Students discuss attributes and explain their reasoning for different classifications.
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Matter And Materials
Students investigate the concept of identifying different objects in nature and classifying them into different categories. The students will describe and explain a group of the objects orally and in writing form that is appropriate to...
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Student Census
Students collect data from their peers and store the information in a database. As students manage the information they realize the usefulness of a database as a tool to manage large amounts of information in an efficient and accurate...
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Common Ground: A Therapy Dog Program Between Students And Older Adults
Students handle a therapy dog and take the school therapy dog to a local nursing home several times over the course of the school year. They complete a culminating project that focuses either on the entire experience or a specific resident.
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Constitutional Sort
In this U.S. Constitution worksheet, learners complete a graphic organizer that requires them to list responsibilities of members of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
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Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Photo Chart
Have fun with student photographs in this phonics activity! Learners sort their classmates' photos by initial sound on a large poster board with the alphabet written vertically down the left side. Also provided are various pictures...
iCivics
Represent Me!
Your class members will take on the roles of legislators and work to serve their constituents in a fun online video game. They will practice sorting and approving bills based on the wants of the people they represent, and understand...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Triangle Pack
With so many different types of triangles, it can be a challenge for young mathematicians to keep them all straight. Luckily this set of printable triangles is here to engage children in comparing and sorting triangles by their...
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Seed Sensation
Students explore seeds through dissecting, sorting, comparing and contrasting. They draw their observations of both a closed and open seed and then they label the parts of a seed. They brainstorm where seeds come from. They compare seeds...