Curated OER
Venn Diagrams With the Pain And the Great One
Students read the story, The Pain and the Great One, written by Judy Blume, and discuss the characters and the sequence of events. They compare/contrast the two main characters using Venn diagrams.
Curated OER
Geo Jammin'
Students compare and contrast related two- and three-dimensional shapes, and complete a Venn diagram illustrating the attributes of each. Using a poem pattern from another lesson, students use data from the diagram to write an attribute...
Curated OER
Mythology in the Middle
Seventh graders read two narrative reading selections and based on the reading, compare and contrast a character from each. Students record their findings in a T-chart and a Venn diagram.
Curated OER
Venn Diagram
Pupils use a Venn diagram to show students' likes and dislikes of eggs and ham.
University of North Carolina
Unc: Writing Center: Comparing and Contrasting
This handout will help to determine whether a particular assignment is asking for comparison/contrast and then to generate a list of similarities and differences, decide which similarities and differences to focus on, and organize your...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Venn Diagram
An introduction to Venn Diagrams. The opening site offers game of keeping score of your understanding of Venn Diagrams containing three circles. The site offers explorations through the "what?" link.
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Texas A&M University
Sets and Set Notation [Pdf]
Learn from this PDF file filled with definitions, examples, and venn diagrams all relating to sets and set notation.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Where Do I Belong?
In this activity, students use Venn diagrams to make several types of classifications.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Venn Diagrams
This set contains statistics questions about Venn diagrams. The student interprets when a Venn diagram suggests such event pairs as mutually exclusive, complementary, and independent events, and uses these diagrams in determining...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Can We Help Save the Earth?
The children will compare two texts: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton and Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet, about an old house and an animal's home respectively, using a Venn Diagram. They should be guided to address the...
Cut the Knot
Cut the Knot!: Mathematics: The Science of Patterns
A book excerpt, this page discusses John Venn's "simple, geometric method for checking the validity of syllogisms," with diagrams, examples, and related links.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Compare & Contrast
Strategies to help students recognize similarities and differences provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as Character Frames, Character Mapping, Semantic Feature Analysis,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom
Contains plans for short lessons that introduce the use of Venn Diagrams to kindergarten students. Uses interactive Venn Diagram exercises to make the concept easy to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing & Writing About Non Fiction
Introduce your learners to the different types of non-fiction such as biographies, biographies, and informative books. Students will use graphic organizers, peer interaction, and hands-on experiences to further understanding of this lesson.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Venn Diagrams Grades 10 12
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers how to use Venn diagrams to solve probability problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Venn Diagrams Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the definition of Venn diagrams and how to use them.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Venn Diagrams Grade 6
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use Venn Diagrams in order to solve problems with common factors.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Venn Diagrams
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the definition of Venn diagrams and how to use them.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Venn Diagrams
Find a quick, concise explanation of a Venn Diagram. Examples are given and clearly explained.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Graphic Organizers [Pdf]
A printable chart shows nine different types of graphic organizers and is followed by a blank copy of each type of organizer, ready to print and use in the classroom. RI.11-12.5 Evaluate text structure
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: The Addition Rule
The purpose of this task is to provide practice calculating probabilities in the context of a chance experiment with equally likely outcomes and to allow students to develop the addition rule for calculating the probability of the union...
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: History of Set Theory
This page, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, traces the history of Set Theory as well as the concept of infinity and the infinite set.
Other
Ejc: Survey of Venn Diagrams
This page from the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics presents some advanced information about Venn diagrams, including formal definitions, symmetric Venn diagrams, variants of Venn diagrams, unsolved problems, who John Venn was, and...