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Express Yourself

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify details that make reading and writing more interesting. They classify events, people, places, and things and attach specific characteristics to each one. Everyone generates describing words on a worksheet that's...
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Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes: Investigating Genre in the Visual Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define genre in the visual arts, particularly in Western painting and explain the differences between subject and genre. The genre of a variety of works of art is identified.
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Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
First graders sort pictures of animals into categories. In this sorting lesson plan, learners use the book On The Farm to categorize their animals.
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Understanding Categories of Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd
What are these shapes? Here are four shapes with some common attributes: they each have four parallel sides and four vertices. Scholars identify a rectangle, rhombus, square, and quadrilateral. Because there is an explanation written...
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Understanding Categories of Shapes

For Students K - 3rd
What are these shapes? Scholars match seven shapes to their names: rhombus, sphere, square, cone, circle, triangle, and parallelogram. Although there isn't much to this worksheet, the shapes are nicely colored and it would make a good...
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Real and Make Believe

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Young readers sort pictures into real and make believe categories. In this real and make believe lesson plan, students have a discussion about things that are real and things that are make believe.
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Pebbles, Sand and Silt -- Categorizing Fiction and Informational Books

For Teachers 1st
Primary readers complete the activities in a Pebbles, Sand and Silt FOSS kit. As a class, they are given a group of rocks and they are to categorize them based on their activities in the FOSS kit. They use this information and apply it...
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Lesson 3: SortingInformation into Predetermined Categories

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders sort items into predetermined categories. In this sorting activity, 2nd graders learn the meaning of the word squirt before listening to a reading of the book, Splish! Splash! Animal Baths by April Pulley Sayre. They...
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Which Word Doesn't Belong?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing categories worksheet, students read groups of four words and identify the one that does not belong in each group. Students choose 10 answers.
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Nouns And Their Modifiers

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this recognizing words that are different worksheet, students read groups of four words and identify the words that do not belong in each group. Students answer 10 questions.
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Fish Sorting

For Students 7th - 9th
In this classification instructional activity, students are given nine pictures of different types of fish. They cut them out and use a key to classify each into a category based on their characteristics.
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Making and Interpreting Tables

For Students 6th - 8th
In this data tables worksheet, students make and interpret data tables given data about magazine sales. They categorize their data, complete their data table and answer questions about their data.
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Categories

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this identifying categories worksheet, students examine 15 groups of 3 words that hold something in common. Students identify a name for each of the 15 groups of words.
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Categorizing Words

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this categories worksheet, students use a word list to put words into two groups and label the groups, identify a word that does not belong in either group, and create an additional group of words that belong together. Students write...
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Which Word Belongs?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this which word belongs instructional activity, students determine categories and choose words to complete groups. Students complete six word groups.
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Categories Game: Ten Words

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, in groups, create lists of vocabulary words related to a particular subject. They are given points for each correctly spelled word that matches a list written by the teacher.
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Past Simple: Pronunciation of Regulars

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this regular verbs activity, students categorize the regular verbs into the correct past tense category for their ending. Students categorize 24 words.
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Help Carrie Crocodile with Her Food Choices!

For Students 1st - 4th
In this foods worksheet, students match the food into categories of yes, no, and maybe. Students complete this for 6 foods total.
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Categories

For Students 4th - 8th
In this categories activity, students make categories out of transportation, measuring tools, vowels, and more. Students have 21 things to put into categories.
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Chairs, Corduroys, Cottages, and Cars: Exploring the Diversity of Design

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create and present a theme-based exhibition. In this design lesson, students categorize objects to reflect a specific design theme and create their own theme-based collections. Students research a museum collection to discover...
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Classifying

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
In this classifying worksheet, students observe a group of words, analyze their similar characteristics and then give them a classification. Groups of words include items such as vegetables, reptiles, landforms, conifer trees,...
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Plant and Animal Communities

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss the six main classes of animals: insects, birds, fish, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles. They complete a variety of activities about animals. They solve animal riddles, categorize toy animals, create an animal...
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Similarity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of similarity. This takes higher order thinking skills and being able to separate into categories. Specifically in this lesson they are introduced to the scale and how it is...
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Animal Classification

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students watch video and slide shows as an introduction to animals. They discuss classifications of animals while moving from most common to least common of the animals. Types of classifications includes herbivores/carnivores;...