MATH2

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=CHPT 2 SORTING=

Culminating Project: What's my rule?
Using a program like Kidspiration or KidPix have students look at the different images that are available them. Talk about how the program has sorted these images and help them think of some similarity between the images. Maybe they are all school things or things with wings. Tell them they are going to design their own group of images based on another similarity they see (all red things, or all things that make loud noises, etc.) Model for them by choosing a new group of images. See if they can guess your sorting "rule". You can print out your new group of images with the rule typed on at the bottom. After modeling have students make their own rule and find only images that belong to their rule (10-15). You can have students pair up and switch computers. Partners will have to guess what the rule is and find new image(s) that match the rule. You can also print these out and make a bulletin board out of them. Cover the rule typed at the bottom with a piece of paper that can fold up. Students can look at the BB and try to guess all the rules, lifting the flap to check their guess. [|Sample]

Whole Class Presentations and Online Games
[|Bert's Bottlecaps] involves higher level sorting. Not only do you sort by circles, toys, & blue things, but some items fall in more than one category. I'm not sure its the best model (because his sorting doesn't seem to help him be more organized) but does make kids think critically.

[|United Streaming] has a video that shows ways children sort in their lives (putting away clothing or toys etc.) It also talks about sorting by different senses so is a great science tie in as well.

[|Count us In] Sorting and Grouping 2.7 [|Same amount?] [|Miffy More or Fewer]

Independent Online Games
view student page at [|TechCenters] [|The Pumpkin Patch] lets you "scroll down to see all the pumpkins. Click and drag to move them, stack them or count them. Just have fun! You can sort them by size or color or the look on their faces."

[|Sort] has 5 pictures to sort into 2 categories (happy/sad, red/blue,2/3,spots/stripes, letters/numbers, big/small, square/circle, etc.)Ties in a lot of K skills!

[|Apple Sorting] has students dragging small, medium and large apples into the correct box.