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Interactive
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Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 7th - 10th
In this online interactive vocabulary skills activity, students answer 15 multiple choice questions regarding the vocabulary words that are related to one another. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Interactive
Curated OER

What's the Big Idea? Exercise 2

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this online interactive categorization instructional activity, students examine 12 groups of 4 words each. Students identify a title for each set of words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Categorizing Items

For Teachers Pre-K - K
For this categorization worksheet, students cut out 6 pictures and classify them as food or clothing by pasting them in the appropriate boxes.
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Organizer
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Floating and Sinking

For Students K - 2nd
In this early physics learning exercise, students cut out pictures of 16 everyday objects. Students determine whether each of the objects will float or sink and then paste the pictures in the appropriate boxes.
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Organizer
Curated OER

The City and the Country

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this categorizing worksheet, students examine 29 words and phrases. Students determine whether each word or phrase describes the city or the country.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teaching Arithmetic and Math Concepts to Headstarters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover early number concepts for numbers 1 through 5. In this number concepts lesson, students work in stations doing hands-on activities such as sorting colored blocks, stringing beads, and counting sticks. Students also...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Odd One Out

For Students 5th - 8th
In this categorizing worksheet, students read 10 questions regarding a wide range of topics and identify the answers in each that are not correct.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Sorting

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sorting worksheet, 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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Category Puzzle

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary and word study worksheet, students categorize 8 everyday words as they use the 8 clues to correctly complete the crossword puzzle.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Down By the Bay

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this early childhood categorizing worksheet, learners examine 4 sets of pictures. Each set has 3 items pictured, and students choose the 1 picture in each of the sets that doesn't belong.
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Worksheet
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Which Word Belongs?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this categorizing worksheet, students choose the word or phrase from the word bank that goes with the words in each of 12 groups. Students name the general category.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sorting Names

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this sorting worksheet, students analyze 15 names of children and sort them into a table according to the number of letters.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Where Are All the Plants? Where Are All the Animals?

For Students K - 1st
In this categorizing worksheet, students examine 8 pictures. Students cut out and paste the plants in the box. Then on the next page, students choose the animal pictures and paste them in the box. There will be half of the pictures not...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Toys

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore toys. They categorize toys; they play games with toys; they bring in toys to show and tell; they discuss the history of some toys; etc.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Genre Jeopardy

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in a game-like format to identify characteristics of genres. They categorize stories into genres bases on story summaries after a class discussion of the characteristics.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The City and the Country

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this comparing and categorizing worksheet, students use the vocabulary words listed to compare and then categorize city life and country life.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Order Me

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this categorizing people activity, students study the order of Anna, Tim, Lisa, Paul, and Karen. Students then read each sentence about the order of the people and answer the identification question.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ridge Wood - Birds

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this categorizing worksheet, students study the pictures of the birds and their names. The objective is to enhance students' knowledge of the bird species.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Don't Say the Word! Intermediate

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts activity, students work in teams to participate in a guessing game. Students have to try to define the word in capitals on the top of each of 15 cards without using any of the words written on the card. Example:...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Classifying Objects

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice using a type of classification system.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 7 Classification Schemes

For Teachers 4th
Activity involves placing organisms into the correct classification.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Garden Spiders

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Garden Insects, learn about six varieties of spiders that live in one garden. [2:40]
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: Mexico: What Is Classifying?

For Students 2nd - 4th
Christina wants to classify all kinds of different things. Help her sort things into main groups.
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Article
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Native Americans: Potawatomi[pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"Native American Life--Potawatomi Profile" is a one page, non-fiction, first person reading/thinking passage about the Potawatomi Native American tribe. It includes information about what they did during each of the seasons of the year.