Sort objects by observable properties, such as size, shape, color, temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light) and texture.
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| Who Is Your Pilot? | Engage students in a fun game of guessing by integrating science and math skills. Students keep track of how many pilots are still in the group as they eliminate some each round based on their partner's answer related to observable characteristics. This lesson is based on the CPALMS eReader, "Ten Little Pilots," resource #217323. |
| Exploring Machine Learning to Train an AI Model | Students will explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and pretrain a model to recognize and identify objects, including geometric shapes and aircraft. They will used unplugged activities to mimic sorting and classification of the objects using their prior knowledge and then make connections to human learning and Machine Learning. Students will then problem solve and propose solutions using an iterative process to improve the ML model to better recognize the objects. This lesson is an integrated Computer Science, Science and Math lesson designed for students in K-2 to apply math and science content knowledge while exploring and using computational thinking like people in Computer Science careers do. |
| Birds of a Feather | Students will go on a simulated bird-watching trip around the classroom. They will collect and sort images of various birds into categories based on their visible characteristics. They will use these groups of bird images to practice counting and comparing objects in different categories. Students will use descriptions of bald eagles in the book, The Bald Eagle by Norman Pearl, to identify images of bald eagles among their categories and discuss how the bald eagle is a symbol of the United States. |
| Sort Those Symbols | Students will be able to sort objects, including American/Florida symbols based on size, color, and shape in this integrated lesson. |
| Sorting and Saying Through Voting | Students will have the opportunity to apply knowledge of sorting and responsible voting to a fun and collaborative small group activity in this integrated lesson plan. |
| What is so COOL about my Robot? Warm and Cool Colors | In this lesson students will create works of art using a painted, warm colored background and a cut and pasted, cool colored robot. This lesson will reinforce warm/cool colors and geometric shapes in a work of art. Students will demonstrate mastery of sorting and selecting warm and cool colors.
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| Observable Properties of Matter | Students will sort objects according to their observable properties, such as size, shape, color, temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light) and texture. |
| Finding the One!! | Students will sort and classify rocks by observable properties, such as size, shape, color and texture. (The properties of temperature and weight are not addressed in this lesson). |
| The Fire Wheels | The Fire Wheels MEA provides students with a problem in which they must work as a team to design a procedure to select the best toy car for a company to sell. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Sort it Out! | In this lesson, students will use a graphic organizer to record their observations on sorting matter from the read aloud book Sorting by Lynn Peppas. |
| Sorting Junk! | In this lesson, students will sort junk boxes to help them understand Physical science benchmarks. Students will also access website to reinforce sorting and technology skills. |
| Getting Wise About Size! | In this lesson, students will learn common antonyms and will participate in an antonym matching game. They will also learn to sort objects based on a common pair of antonyms, "big" and "small". They will use their understanding of the words "big" and "small" to describe objects, both orally and in writing. |
| Sorting by Shape and Color | Students will sort various objects by shape and color in cooperative groups. |
