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Halloween Candy Sort Lesson PlanHalloween Candy Sort Lesson Plan
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Halloween Candy Sort

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Students bring in candy wrappers after Halloween and practice sorting, classifying and creating Venn diagrams with the gathered information.

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scientific classification, taxonomy, halloween, Holidays, venn diagrams

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classification, halloween, venn diagrams, math

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