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Vocabulary Quiz
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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What's the Big Idea? Exercise 2
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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Categorizing Items
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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Floating and Sinking
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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The City and the Country
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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Teaching Arithmetic and Math Concepts to Headstarters
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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Odd One Out
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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Sorting
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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Category Puzzle
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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Down By the Bay
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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Which Word Belongs?
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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Sorting Names
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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Where Are All the Plants? Where Are All the Animals?
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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Toys
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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Genre Jeopardy
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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The City and the Country
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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Order Me
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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Ridge Wood - Birds
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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Don't Say the Word! Intermediate
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:...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Classifying Objects
Fourth graders practice using a type of classification system.
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Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 7 Classification Schemes
Activity involves placing organisms into the correct classification.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Garden Spiders
In this video segment from Garden Insects, learn about six varieties of spiders that live in one garden. [2:40]
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: Mexico: What Is Classifying?
Christina wants to classify all kinds of different things. Help her sort things into main groups.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Native Americans: Potawatomi[pdf]
"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.